Strides Cottage

Strides Cottage is a 17th-century building, now a single dwelling, that was originally a pair (perhaps three) of timber-framed cottages with brick infill and a tile roof. It is located in West Tytherley.

The front elevation largely features brick infilling the exposed timber frame, with three window bays. A brick porch with a catslide roof is located to the right of the centre bay, providing access to the left. Gabled dormers with 20th-century three-light casement windows are positioned above the centre and right bays. Ground-floor windows in each bay are also 20th-century three-light casements. A brick end stack is present where the roof is half-hipped to the left. An axial brick chimney with three pots, one of which is a smoker, rises above the porch.

The rear elevation is similarly timber-framed with brick infill, and includes a small outshut faced with modern lap board and skimmed cement, covered with a corrugated roof. Two gables are also visible at the rear, all windows being modern single, two or three-light designs.

The interior was not inspected but retains the original floor plan and visible internal timberwork. A smoker is located on the first floor between the two gables.

To the left, or south, side of the timber-framed building is a brick house dating to the 1920s or 1930s, which has been modernised and is not part of the listing. The brick end wall of this building is visible where it abuts the original cottages, and access doors between the two buildings which once existed are now blocked and filled internally.

The building was depicted as a pair of cottages on the first Ordnance Survey map of 1871, though its footprint has changed since then. Alterations have been made to the north end of the 17th-century building, and a new house was added to the south end in the 1920s/1930s.

Strides Cottage is designated at Grade II for its special architectural and historic interest, attributed to its timber-frame construction, early date, and the retention of original features such as the smoker and timber frame.