Tithe Cottage

Tithe Cottage is a house dating back to the 17th century, with an early 20th-century addition and alterations from the early 19th century and 20th centuries. It is constructed of rubble stone with flush quoins and stone dressings, featuring a rendered plinth. The roof is tiled, with a large rendered ridge stack in the centre of the original 17th-century section and a rendered side wall stack serving the addition. The differing ground levels result in a three-storey-plus-attic south elevation, while the north elevation is two-storey. The house has a four-bay layout, following a lobby entrance plan, with a two-bay western addition. The northern street elevation has a central 19th-century Gothick stone porch, featuring a pointed arch supported by moulded responds and a returned hoodmould with a moulded cornice. Behind the porch is a chamfered 17th-century doorcase with a glazed panelled door and a coved dripmould, above which is a raised shield. There are blocked, formerly three-light mullioned windows on either side, and to the west a 20th-century small-pane window in a chamfered segment-headed opening. Above the porch is a tiny window, and to the east a two-light horizontal sliding glazing bar sash window in a 17th-century opening. To the west is a blocked 17th-century opening with a single-light window beyond. The south elevation has two three-light recessed and chamfered mullioned windows with dripmoulds and casements on the ground floor, and a 19th-century door to the west. Above, there is a small oval window with a dripmould to the west and a small-paned two-light window to the east, set within a 17th-century surround with a dripmould that has been broken through the base. Further east, there is a central single-light recessed and chamfered window, a similar mullioned window with a dripmould, and an inserted small-pane 20th-century window. Above again there is a small central single-light window, with two-light casement windows on either side set in 17th-century surrounds, but breaking through the bases. A single-light window is to the west. Above this are two roof dormers with hipped roofs and casement windows. The western addition is pebbledashed on the south elevation and has a glazed door to the east, a segment-headed two-light casement window to the west, and a similar window above. The interior features a timber-framed cross wall, a plain straight staircase, a large inglenook, and a significant hearth on the ground floor which was used as a workshop by Robert Bakewell.