Span Cottage

Span Cottage is a late 17th-century cottage, with later additions and alterations. It is located in Cockshutt and was formerly listed under a different name. The construction is timber framed with painted red brick infill, set on a chamfered red sandstone block plinth. It has a slate roof with deep overhanging eaves. The cottage originally comprised two rooms, with a byre attached to the right. It is one storey and has an attic.

The timber framing features irregular square and rectangular panels, with 3 panels from cill to wall-plate, and long straight tension braces to the right gable end and rear. A collar and tie beam end truss is on the right, and red sandstone blocks are on the left gable end, which has an inserted integral red brick stack. A boarded door is to the far left, and two 20th-century casements are to the left of a plank door to the right of centre. A late 19th or early 20th-century gabled eaves dormer sits between the casements. A stable door leads to the byre, with an eaves hatch to its left.

There are single-storey brick lean-tos attached to each end; the right lean-to incorporates the infilled arches of former pigsties, now covered with 20th-century red brick. A small 19th-century cast-iron casement is on the rear wall to the right.

Inside, the left ground-floor room has a chamfered spine beam and plain flat joists, and an infilled stone inglenook fireplace with a segmental chamfered wooden lintel. A timber-framed cross wall, on a sandstone block plinth, has a wide plank door with wooden latch and pointed strap hinges to the right, and an infilled doorway to the left. The right room has a chamfered spine beam with straight-cut stops, plain joists, and an oak winder staircase behind a plank door to the right of the fireplace. Stepping of the brick stack is visible on the first floor of the left gable end. The room has wide boarded oak floor boards and a chamfered single-purlin roof with a central collar and tie beam truss and slightly jowled wall posts. The wall between the house part and the two-bay byre has a collar and tie beam truss with slightly raking struts from the tie beam to the principal rafters and long straight tension braces. An unusual pegged mortice and tenon joint connects a spine beam of the right room of the house into this wall. The red brick infill (bricks laid vertically on the sides) likely dates to 1866, as it has a painted inscription "TS/1866". A central truss and loft were inserted into the right part of the byre, consisting of two long raking struts from the floor of the hayloft to single purlins. 19th-century cowstalls are against the back wall. A lean-to attached to the left gable end has a cast-iron fireplace and sink to the left, with a furnace below.