Hope Cottage

Hope Cottage is a house built around 1760, with extensions added around 1950 and 1980. The structure features a plastered and whitewashed timber frame, topped with a thatched hipped roof.

The exterior is one storey with a dormer attic and has a two-window range. On the north side, there is a 20th-century glazed door to the left and two late 20th-century single-light casements on the first floor, which do not have glazing bars. The west side has two similar two-light casements on the ground floor and two single-light casements in a single eyebrow dormer above. This elevation also displays pargetted panels with geometric designs. The south side includes a lean-to outshut from around 1980, which is pargetted on the west return and has similar casements and a half-glazed door. The attic retains a single-light casement in the original gable wall and features an external brick stack. The east elevation has a two-storey lean-to extension, added around 1950, with one first-floor single-light casement under a slate roof.

Inside, the ground floor consists of two rooms plus the 1950 extension, which serves as a kitchen. The frame includes two bays of principal studs, middle rails, tie beams, and roof, with thin scantling studwork in the internal partitions. The north door leads into a lobby with a staircase from around 1950. The east extension lacks architectural interest. The north room has ceiling joists, while the south room features a rebuilt brick fireplace in the south wall and exposed partition studwork on the walls. The first-floor north room is divided into two by a 20th-century partition, with the main frame exposed, as it is in the south room. The roof consists of rafters and a ridge piece only.