The Cottage

The Cottage is a house located partly in the civil parish of West Farleigh. It was originally a pair of houses but is now a single dwelling. Built in the late 18th century, it has early 19th-century additions. The structure is timber framed and weatherboarded, topped with a plain tile roof. The main part of the house, built at right angles to the road and set back from it, faces south.

The left section is two storeys with an attic and features a half-hipped gambrel roof. It has a central brick ridge stack and a projecting brick gable end stack on the right. There are two flat-roofed two-light dormers and a regular two-window front with two-light casements. The ground floor has two sixteen-pane sash windows with shallow hoodmoulds, and a boarded door with a flat bracketed hood is located at the right end. A weatherboarded lean-to is present at the rear.

The central section is also two storeys and sits on a stone plinth. Its roof has lower eaves and a ridge compared to the left section and is gabled to the right. There is one sixteen-pane sash window on the first floor, while the ground floor is underbuilt in ragstone at the front and open to the rear as a shelter.

The right section is two storeys, also on a stone plinth, with a roof that is lower than that of the central section and half-hipped to the right. It has irregular fenestration with two two-light casements. A boarded door with a lean-to hood is positioned towards the right end, accompanied by a small sixteen-pane fixed light to its left. Additionally, there is a short, narrow, two-storey weatherboarded rear return wing on the right with a projecting right side stack, and a two-storey parallel rear range extends from the rest of the right section. The interior has not been inspected. The building was formerly known as Smith's Hill Cottage.