Priestley Cottage

Priestley Cottage is a former farmhouse dating from around 1600, with 20th-century extensions. It features a two-cell lobby-entrance plan, which may have originally included a cross-passage. The building is two storeys high, constructed from timber framing and plaster, with a concrete tile roof. The windows are 20th-century small-pane casements, and there is a gabled 20th-century entrance porch with a boarded door. The timber framing is well-preserved and fully exposed, showcasing good complete unmoulded work. Inside, both the hall and parlour have flat ceiling joists that are chamfered with lambstongue stops. There is evidence of diamond-mullioned windows, and the roof is a wind-braced clasped-purlin type with open trusses that lack tie-beams, instead featuring collar-beams. In the hall, the joist chamfers stop for a screen, which seems to have once formed a cross-passage against the gable wall; it is possible that there was a service cell where the current 20th-century extension is located on the right. The hall and parlour have back-to-back open lintelled fireplaces, with the hall fireplace featuring an ovolo-moulded lintel.