Choulton Cottage

Choulton Cottage is a house dating from around 1500, with refacing, alterations, and additions made in the mid to late 19th century. The structure is timber framed, partly roughcast and partly refaced with coursed limestone rubble, and has extensions in squared and coursed limestone, with graded slate and likely 20th-century slate roofs. The building is aligned southwest to northeast, with its main aspect facing southeast.

Originally, it featured an open hall with three framed bays, and a 19th-century addition to the south that forms an L-shape. The cottage has one storey and an attic, as well as two storeys. There is an off-centre rendered ridge stack to the east and an external lateral stack with a gabled attic link and a red brick top stage to the west of the 19th-century wing. The framing consists of square panels, and the south front shows that the eaves were raised in the 18th or 19th century.

On the first floor, there are two 20th-century casement windows, while the ground floor features a 20th-century casement window to the left and two boarded doors to the right, the far right door leading to a coal house. There is also a ground floor three-light casement in the left-hand return front and a two-light attic casement in the gable end to the south. The west front includes 19th-century planted timbers in the gable end to the left, a two-light attic casement to the left, two two-light ground floor casements beneath, and a 20th-century ground floor casement to the right of the stack.

Inside, there are two full cruck trusses flanking the central bay, featuring tie beams and collars, with the western truss having an Alcock apex type B. The roof timbers are smoke-blackened, and there is an interior partition wall between the central and eastern bays with square panels. The staircase, possibly from the 18th century, has turned balusters, a moulded handrail, and a square newel post.