The Cottage

The Cottage is a house dating from the 16th century, with later alterations and additions, including a raised roof and 20th-century extensions to the left and rear. It features rendered timber-framing on a blue lias rubble plinth, with thicker rendered brick or stone walls to the left. The roof is steeply pitched and covered with old tiles, and there are brick stacks at each end. The building has a three-unit plan and stands two storeys plus an attic, with a four-window range.

The entrance is located left of centre in a forward projection and features a six-panel door within a moulded wood frame. To the left of the entrance, there is a large three-light small-paned casement window, with a smaller similar window above it. The left end of the house has a small square window with a two-light casement, both floors featuring leaded glazing. The right end has a pair of windows under a drip mould, each with a two-light small-paned casement, and two smaller windows above, also with small-paned casements and leaded glazing. The attic includes two gabled dormers with two-light leaded casements. The left return has nesting holes in the gable and a single-storey addition with French windows at the front. The right return features a small square window with a two-light wooden ovolo-mullioned window. At the rear, there is a gabled wing with a stack and a small first-floor window with an ovolo-moulded frame and leaded glazing.

Inside, there is a small section of exposed close studding at the left end, along with a stop-chamfered spine beam and an inglenook fireplace with a chamfered bressumer. To the left of the fireplace, there is a round-backed recess with shelves, which may have originally been a bacon-curing cupboard, and a niche to the right return with cut-outs on the sides forming a seat. The left return wall has a later opening, and there is a winding stair and exposed roof trusses. The first-floor chimney is positioned in front of the flue from the ground floor, and there is a space above the fireplace that may have been a priest hole. Some 17th-century dado panelling is present on the first-floor front.