Westmoor Cottage

Westmoor Cottage is a house dating to the 16th century or earlier, with significant alterations in the 18th and 19th centuries and window replacement in the 20th century. It was originally a timber-framed building, largely refaced with rendered finishes, except for the east side which is now tiled. It has a steeply pitched hipped tiled roof with a large axial stack from the 18th century and a smaller brick stack from the 19th century.

The house may have begun as a four-bay hall house with a two-bay open hall, which was ceiled in the 17th century and provided with an axial chimneystack in the 18th century. The original plan is largely visible on the first floor, but the ground-floor eastern wall of the central hall appears to be a later addition.

The south elevation, facing the street, has a string course, two large metal-framed casement windows from the mid-20th century, and a 19th-century gabled porch with fretted bargeboards. The corner post is visible on the south east corner. The east elevation is tiled and has 19th-century fixed casements on both floors. A projecting two-story extension and a lean-to extension are visible on the west side, revealing a corner post with a jowl and a tension brace, along with rafter feet. The north elevation includes a single-story extension with brick and weatherboarding under a catslide roof, revealing the timber-framed, weatherboarded north wall of the original building within the extension.

Inside, remnants of the original 16th or earlier four-bay timber frame remain visible, including jowled posts, the top of the wallplate, and partition walls on both the ground and first floors. Tension braces on these sections exhibit pronounced curves. Tie beams show no signs of peg holes for crown or queen posts, and purlins are not visible. The three visible rafters are substantial. The ground floor features a spine beam with a two-inch chamfer and lambs tongue stops, flanked by four early 19th-century cupboards with butterfly hinges and early 19th-century plank doors with handmade iron hinges, all near the axial chimneystack.