Pencil Cottage

Pencil Cottage is a house and shop built around 1820, originally designed in the cottage ornee style, and altered and extended in the 20th century. It is constructed from coursed Isle of Wight stone, featuring wooden bargeboards and a thatched roof with a brick chimney. The building has one storey and attics, with two windows. A large projecting gable on the left side has fretted bargeboards and a first-floor oriel supported by brackets. Below this, there is a canted bay with Gothic-headed lights. To the right, an eyebrow dormer contains a casement window, and below it is a 20th-century built-out stone porch with a plain doorcase and a rectangular fanlight. The left side elevation features a gable with an oriel and a mid-19th century five-light bay on the ground floor. There are four yellow brick clustered chimneystacks set diagonally. A 20th-century extension to the east is not of special interest.