Cottage To Rear Of Kirkby House

This cottage, located at the rear of Kirkby House, dates back to 1690, with an early 19th-century addition and later alterations. It is constructed of mud and stud on a brick plinth, topped with a thatched roof covered in corrugated iron sheeting. The building is single storey and features a brick chimney stack with an owl-hole and ledge.

The main entrance front has a slightly off-centre doorway flanked by two irregularly spaced two-light casement windows, with a small shuttered opening to the left. The left side has a high brick plinth and a single two-light sliding sash window in the gable. The right side features a shallow glazing bar window.

On the rear façade, there is an off-centre window with two-light casements. To the left, garage doors have been inserted into a later extension, and there are two timber lean-to sheds, one with a pantile roof and the other with corrugated iron sheeting.

Inside, the cottage retains chamfered spine beams and a single bressumer inscribed “MA’L THE3 1690”, along with a later timber fireplace. The brick stack still has a 19th-century oven with iron doors.