Mount Cottage

Mount Cottage is a house dating from the 18th century, with extensions made in the 20th century. It features a timber frame that is plastered and weatherboarded, topped with a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The house has three bays facing northeast, with a central stack that creates a lobby entrance. There is a lean-to extension on the rear left, which forms a catslide, and a flat-roofed two-storey extension in the rear right angle. Additionally, there is a flat-roofed single-storey extension at the back of both.

The building stands two storeys tall. On the ground floor, there are two 19th-century casement windows. The first floor has two early 19th-century sash windows, each with 16 lights made of crown glass. A half-glazed late 19th-century door is set within a 20th-century gabled porch. The weatherboarding extends to the first-floor level, with plaster above. Inside, there are two large wood-burning hearths that are back to back, constructed of 0.23 metre brickwork. The floor features transverse plain joists of vertical section, supported by a 20th-century beam in the left bay, and there is primary straight bracing. Notably, there is a good series of chisel-cut carpenter's assembly marks on the studding of the rear wall, and the frame is pegged and jointed hardwood.

Historical records show that John Johnson occupied this property, along with one acre of land, on 13 October 1752, with subsequent occupants recorded on 16 October 1780, 13 June 1813, 11 December 1837, and 6 December 1841. A modern shield on the front elevation is inscribed with the year 1761, although there is no documentary evidence to support this date.