36, Keele Village

This building is a cottage located at 36 Keele Village, dating from the 17th century, with alterations and extensions made in the mid-19th century. It features a timber frame set on a chamfered brick plinth with plastered infill, topped by a clay tile roof that has fishscale bands on the front. The roof includes a central purplish-brown brick ridge stack and an integral end stack on the right side. The cottage is one storey high with an attic and is likely composed of three framed bays.

The framing at the front has been extensively renewed, displaying three square panels from the cill to the wall plate, along with long and short straight tension braces. There are windows on either side of a mid-19th century boarded door that has a bracketed hood above it. The windows are three-light casements from the mid-to-late 19th century, and there are gabled eaves dormers above with pointed finials. The right gable end is clad in brick, likely from the mid-19th century, although the original purlin ends are still visible. The left gable end retains exposed framing with V-struts to the collar, typical of 17th-century roof construction.

At the rear, there is a two-storey brick addition from the mid-19th century, featuring a double-span roof and a lean-to that was formerly used as a dairy. Inside, the left-hand room on the ground floor contains two chamfered spine beams with chamfered stops, and the inglenook fireplaces have been infilled. The cottage was formerly known as Cottage Farmhouse.