Dove Cottage

Dove Cottage is a house dating from the early 18th century that was extended at both ends and divided into two houses in the early 19th century. It has a timber frame set on a stucco plinth, with roughcast walls featuring basketwork and fan pargetting, and a black weatherboarded apron. The cottage has a steep thatched roof and is one and a half storeys tall, with a two-cell layout and a central chimney. It faces south and was later symmetrically extended by one bay at each end, each with an external gable chimney. Inside, there are back-to-back dog leg stairs behind the central chimney and a blocked brick oven located in the north jamb of the east fireplace of the central stack. The floor levels are higher on the ground and first floors of the end extensions. The front features two battened doors in the middle, flanked by two small-paned, cast-iron, Yorkshire sliding casement windows, all connected by a drip board on shaped brackets. There are also two dormer windows at the eaves, grouped in the middle. The original part of the house has axial chamfered beams and open fireplaces, while the eastern end fireplace has a good early 19th-century cast-iron basket grate.