The Cottage St Lawrence Well The Old Cottage

The Cottage St Lawrence Well and The Old Cottage form a large, picturesque, asymmetrical building with Gothic/Tudor detailing. "The Old Cottage," likely the original 17th or 18th century cottage, was altered and became a subsidiary service wing to the main house in 1794 when Sir Richard Worseley built "The Cottage St Lawrence Well" as a marine residence.

“The Old Cottage” stands at the east end of the main house and is constructed of stone rubble with saddle stone gable ends, having a tiled roof with a gable over the right-hand portion of the garden front. It features two-light stone mullioned windows, with corbel brackets supporting a weathered stone hood over a Tudor arched doorway.

The main house, "The Cottage St Lawrence Well," dates to 1794 and is an early picturesque design, with some later alterations. It’s built of ashlar blocks with intervening small stones. The west entrance front features a central, two-storey gabled porch with plain bargeboards. The ground floor is open, supported by an octagonal stone pier that carries the first-floor oriel bay window with a tiled pent roof. Flanking bays contain three-light windows with marginal glazing and drip moulds. The roof is tiled, with deep flat eaves and openwork bargeboards to the gable ends. The south garden front has two bargeboard-gabled bays; the left-hand bay retains an original canted bay with two-light casements featuring purple-tinted marginal glazing and a central ground-floor doorway, all with drip moulds. A later, 19th-century, two-storey rectangular bay with drip moulds over the casements is on the right-hand side. A lower service wing, set back, connects with "The Old Cottage”.

Inside, a simple open-string staircase with a continuous handrail is located behind the west entrance. Late 18th century marble mantlepieces are in the two front rooms flanking the entrance. The roof line of the main house is punctuated by grouped chimneys, some of Tudor pattern, with shaped ridge tiles. A tooled ashlar covered way, with a slate roof, supported on plain iron columns and open to the garden side, curves from the north side of the main house. This leads to a tunnel-vaulted passage to the drive. The entrance passage to the drive is flanked by capped piers with round-headed archways and scrolled wrought iron gates.