The Cottage

The Cottage is a house built in 1824 for Jeremiah Plumb. It features colourwashed brick with a colourwashed plastered rear, and the front is adorned with tile hanging in bands of two colours. The slate roof has brick stacks at the left ridge and right end. The house has a central entrance plan and is two storeys high, with a two-window range of 8/8 unhorned sashes, likely original, and those on the ground floor have shallow pediment hoods. The central doorway is topped with a similar hood on shaped brackets and contains a 6-panel door, with the upper two panels glazed.

On the right end, there is a small 20th-century window on each floor, while the left end features a very small casement. The rear has two 2-light casements above a single-storey extension. Inside, the property remains largely unaltered and retains 4-panel or plank doors with internal overlights. The right reception room has a restored small open fireplace. The original back door is still in place within the extension, leading into the kitchen, which includes an open fireplace, old cupboards, and exposed joists in the ceiling. There are timber-framed partitions and an internal window in the former dairy, which also has exposed joists in the ceiling.

The staircase rises between two walls and features what is likely the original top balustrade with turned balusters. Old floorboards are visible in the bathroom, and there is a very unusual small pale blue enamelled metal fireplace surround, probably from the 1930s, in one of the bedrooms, which also has a timber-framed partition in a closet. The simple original roof structure remains, although the collars have been renewed. Research by the current owners indicates that much of the exterior and interior of this house has survived from the time it was built for Jeremiah Plumb.