Three Ways Cottage

Three Ways Cottage is a 17th-century house located in Bitterley. It features a painted timber frame with painted infill set on a stone rubble plinth, a weatherboarded rear wing, and brick elements. The roof is covered with plain tiles. The building has brick gable-end stacks, with the left stack being plain and the right stack having a twin spurred shaft topped with a star-shaped cap. The cottage has a two-window range and includes a rear wing.

The exterior is single-storey with an attic and cellar. The south front showcases square framing in the attic storey, supported by tension braces and underbuilt with 19th-century brick. There are two 20th-century two-light casements and two framed gabled dormers, each with two-light casements. The left gable return features an end truss with a straight tie beam, a collar with vertical struts below, and twin raking struts above. The square wall framing consists of three panels high with tension braces at the attic level. The right gable return has a similar end truss, but it is mostly obscured by a projecting stone and brick stepped stack with tiled outshuts. The rear of the cottage has square framing that is masked to the left by the projecting rear wing.

Inside, the west bay contains double bridging beams with ogee-chamfer stops. The east bay features a main bridging beam with double ovolo and fillet chamfer, along with subsidiary bridging beams that have cyma chamfer moulding. An internal truss includes a straight tie beam, three vertical struts leading to the collar, and square framing under the tie beam with braces.