Weston Cottage And Stores

Weston Cottage and Stores is a house that was formerly partly used as stables and is now a house and shop. It likely dates from the late 17th century, with later additions and alterations. The building is timber framed with painted brick infill and some rendered areas, topped with graded slate roofs. It has an L-shaped plan consisting of two ranges, each with two framed bays, and a single-bay addition to the right of the west range. The roofs were rebuilt in the late 18th or early 19th century.

The building is one storey and has an attic, featuring a dentilled eaves cornice at the rear of the west range and the north range. The framing is exposed on the west range, showing square panels with three from the cill to the original wall-plate, a rectangular panel above, and long and short straight tension braces. The left gable end has what appears to be a raised tie beam and queen-posts. The windows are modern, with C20 casements and fixed-light windows in the framing panels, including one to the left and two to the right of a C20 gabled brick porch that covers a C19 plank door. There is also a C20 French window to the right. The building features two C20 gabled dormers that break the eaves, a tall red brick ridge stack to the left of centre, and an integral lateral stack at the front on the right.

The right gable end has a shallow gabled projection with a late 19th-century pilastered shop front and a moulded entablature. In the north range, there are late C20 windows to the left and right of a roughly central door, with C20 gabled eaves dormers on both sides. A C19 single-storey brick lean-to is located in the angle between the two ranges.

Inside, the timber frame (with square panels) is fragmentarily exposed throughout both ranges, including in the cross walls. The left ground-floor room of the west range features a chamfered ceiling beam and exposed joists, along with a large stack that has a partly infilled inglenook fireplace. The roof is a queen-post design in two bays for each range.