The Cottage

The Cottage is a house dating back to the 17th century, with a front section constructed around 1860. It is built using a timber-frame structure on a base of coursed limestone rubble, with brick detailing and a tile roof, featuring brick stacks. The house has a gable facing outwards, with its front towards the right side. The layout forms an L-shape.

The front range, dating from around 1860, is two storeys high and symmetrical, with a three-window design. It has a chamfered brick plinth and a top cornice featuring a central gablet. The entrance is arched and framed with fluted pilaster strips and consoles; it now has a later gabled timber porch. Above the entrance is a fanlight, and the door has four flush panels. Windows on the ground floor have sills and rubbed brick flat arches, with 12-pane horns. First-floor windows have similar 9-pane sashes. The house has a cross-axial brick stack and a rear lateral stack. Similar windows are present on the returns, with a range of single-storey service buildings on the left return.

The right return, facing the street, has a rear range with close-studded timber framing on a high rubble plinth. Two canted bay windows have high brick plinths and small-paned casement windows with a 1:3:1 light arrangement, along with two small leaded lights between the panes. The first floor has windows with 3-light small-paned casements, all using iron opening casements. A large cross-axial stack has fillets and a 19th-century cornice with four pots.

Inside, the front range has a central staircase and back-to-back fireplaces in the rear wing.