Dove Cottage

Dove Cottage is a house dating from the 18th century, with a later 18th-century chimney and a western wing rebuilt around 1978. The house is timber-framed with a brick sill and is mostly dark weatherboarded, though the western end is roughcast. It has a half-hipped tiled roof. The house originally comprised two storeys and two rooms, arranged around an internal chimney stack. A single-storey western range has replaced a former service room, where a decorative brick chimney with a corbelled offset was previously exposed. The north front has three windows on each floor, featuring two-light flush casements. Similar original windows are located at the rear. A boarded front door is now located in the eastern end, protected by a gabled tiled hood. Inside, the house features thin exposed timbers, straight tension braces within the walls, an axial beam, and an open fireplace with a timber lintol – originally the only fireplace in the house. Carpenter’s marks appear in a series on the former western end. A moulded plank door with H-hinges is also present. A tie-beam has been cut and strapped to accommodate the chimney’s construction.