Black And White Cottage

Black and White Cottage is a house dating from around 1600, with alterations and additions made in the late 19th century and mid-20th century. The structure features a mix of coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings, timber framing with rendered and brick infill, and plain tiled roofs. The layout includes a hall and an intersecting cross-wing; the hall consists of two bays aligned east to west, with a single-bay cross-wing extending to the southwest.

At the west end of the hall range, there is a large external ashlar chimney with two large offsets on the east side and a rebuilt capping. Additionally, a chimney on the north side of the west hall bay has a tall ashlar stack and rebuilt brick capping. The building is one storey with an attic. The hall features two rows of square panels at the first floor level. The east gable end of the hall is jettied, and the panels above the jetty, along with the roof truss that has a decorative concave lozenge detail, were restored in the late 19th century. The north gable end of the cross-wing includes a collar and tie-beam truss with large raking struts.

On the east front elevation, the east gable end of the hall has a ground floor three-light chamfered mullioned window with a hoodmould, and a single-light first floor casement window from the 20th century. To the left of the mullioned window is a possibly 17th-century ledged and battened door with a moulded architrave. The south side of the hall, at the angle with the cross-wing, features a ground floor two-light chamfered mullioned window and a first floor three-light casement with a plank weathering. A 20th-century lean-to is attached to the south end of the cross-wing, which has a half-glazed door on its east side, serving as the main entrance. There is also a 19th-century lean-to outshut on the north side of the hall, featuring a ledged and battened door with a cambered head at its east end.