Vale Cottage

Vale Cottage is a late 17th century to early 18th century, two-storey, four-windowed timber-framed house located on the west side of London Road. It features a hipped roof with a deep cove at the eaves, covered with old red tiles and three courses of slate along the eaves. The layout consists of three rooms in a line plan, with a lateral stack at the rear of the central room and an entrance door closer to the northern end. The house has three-light mullioned windows with rectangular leaded glazing and central iron casements, along with a two-light window above the door. The entrance features a six-panel door that is raised and fielded, with the top two panels glazed, surrounded by a wide moulded architrave and a flat hood supported by shaped brackets. There is an external gable stack on the northern side. At the rear, there is a two-storey lower lean-to with early 19th century, eight-over-eight paned sash windows at the northern end and a catslide slate roof. The first floor is timber-framed, while the ground floor is constructed of renewed brick. This is a notable house representative of its period.