The Bell Cottage

The Bell Cottage is a house that was formerly known as The Bell public house. It dates from the 17th century or earlier. The building features a timber frame that is roughcast on a stucco sill and has a steeply pitched old red tile roof. There is a slate-roofed roughcast lean-to on the eastern end. The house has a three-unit, central-chimney, lobby-entry plan and is one and a half storeys high. A roughcast central chimney is located a third of the way from the western end, and there is a rear lateral chimney made of 19th-century red brick on the eastern part. The cottage faces south along the road and has three gabled dormers at the eaves. It includes small-paned, two-light flush casement windows, with a three-light window in the eastern room, and a plank door that has a simple moulded surround and a small hood, positioned in line with the central chimney. The side-purlin roof extends down as a catslide over a rear outshut, which is partly weatherboarded, and is connected to a weatherboarded two-bay barn at the northwest, topped with a steep corrugated iron roof.