Cotcroft Cottage

Cotcroft Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century or earlier. It is timber framed and roughcast rendered, with some weatherboarding, and has a roof made of handmade red plain tiles. The cottage has four bays facing southeast, featuring an axial stack in the second bay from the left end. There is a 19th-century external stack at the left end and a 19th-century single-storey lean-to extension at the left end and rear. It is connected to a 20th-century stable block at the right end. The cottage is one storey high with attics and includes one 20th-century and one 19th-century casement window, along with 20th-century French windows in between. There are two 20th-century plain doors and three 19th-century casements in gabled dormers. The roof is gambrel-shaped and half-hipped at both ends. The main stack is made of 16th-century small bricks, topped with a tall 20th-century shaft. On the hill elevation towards Hollow Road, there are two 20th-century casements and three 19th-century casements in gabled dormers. Inside, there are chamfered axial beams with lamb's tongue stops, a large wood-burning hearth facing to the right that has been reduced for a 20th-century grate, and a bread oven. The frame is mainly plastered internally.