Lady Dorothy'S Cottage

Lady Dorothy's Cottage is a building that dates back to 1755 and was originally a school before being converted into a house. It may have been designed by William Baker. The structure is made of red brick with ashlar dressings and features a plain tile roof with coped verges and brick integral end stacks. The cottage consists of two parallel ranges that are aligned north-south and face east. It has two storeys and a gable-lit attic, with an ogee-moulded eaves band.

The front of the cottage has two small-pane casement windows with bracketed pediments and a central six-panel door that also has a bracketed pediment and a keyed fanlight with radiating glazing bars. There are single-storey, single-bay wings on either side of the main structure. A central datestone reads, "This school was erected and endowed by LADY DOROTHY GREY IN THE YEAR 1755."

At the rear, the building features two storeys and an attic, with an ogee-moulded eaves band and giant corner pilasters. The parapets above the pilasters are crenellated and stepped up over the central bay. The rear has three bays, with a central staircase window that has a raised keystone and a lunette above it, while the other windows are small-pane casements with bracketed pediments. The central door at the rear has six panels with glazed top panels and a raised keystone.

Inside, the cottage is noted for its dog-leg staircase with turned balusters. William Baker was active in Enville in 1748 and received payment for plans in 1750. Lady Dorothy's Cottage shares stylistic similarities with Woodhouse Farmhouse in Stoke-upon-Tern, North Shropshire, which Baker built for Charles Pigot between 1754 and 1756.