Whitehaven

Whitehaven is a cottage that was originally built in 1569, with a 17th-century addition and late 19th-century alterations. It features a timber frame with painted brick nogging set on a brick plinth, while the left-hand gable end has been rebuilt in rendered brick. The cottage has slate roofs. The framing consists of closely spaced uprights with a middle rail and tension braces, creating small square panels that are two and three from the sole plate to the wall plate. The building has a T-plan layout with three framed bays that run at right angles to the road, along with a one-bay 17th-century addition at the rear. It is one storey and has an attic.

On the east front, there is an off-centre brick ridge stack to the left, along with external brick end stacks and an external brick end stack for the rear wing. The central gabled timber-framed semi-dormer features a three-light wooden-framed leaded wooden casement. The front has three windows, including late 19th-century and early 20th-century two- and three-light leaded wooden casements. There is an early 20th-century bay window off-centre to the left, which has a three-light wooden-framed leaded metal casement that replaced a former doorway. To the right, there is a boarded door with a date in the frame above. The right-hand gable end has a collar and tie-beam truss with queen struts.

Inside, the central ground-floor room has a wide-chamfered beam and a large open fireplace with a wooden lintel. There is a small piece of old stained or painted glass in the rear of the left-hand ground-floor room depicting a head. A reset rail in the former rear wall of the main range is dated 1569 and is said by the owner to have come from above the former second doorway in the front wall. There is also a blocked two-light window.