Belks White Cottage

Belks White Cottage is a farmhouse that has been converted into a house. It dates from the late 14th century or early 15th century, with alterations made in the mid-16th century and restoration completed in the late 20th century. The building is timber framed with rendered infilling and has a plain tile roof.

The structure features an open hall consisting of two unequal-length timber-framed bays, along with storeyed end bays. It stands two storeys high on a stone plinth, with gabled end jetties that are underbuilt. The principal posts and midrails are exposed, and peg-holes indicate broadly-spaced close-studding. The narrower left hall bay has tension braces. The roof is steeply pitched and hipped, with gablets, and there are stacks: a gable end stack to the left and a brick ridge stack at the right end of the left hall bay.

The cottage has an irregular arrangement of four windows, including a two-light casement at each end bay, a small single light above the door, and a late 20th-century rectangular timber-framed first-floor bay window with a gable on the right hall bay. There is also a blocked six-light diamond mullion window on the rear wall of the right hall bay. A boarded door is situated within durns to the left end of the left hall bay, and there is a stone lean-to at the right end.

Inside, the cottage features exposed framing and evidence of service doors at the left end of the hall, as well as stairs at the right end bay. The roof has a sans-purlin design, and there are substantial remains of a timber and plaster stack with a stone base that backs onto the cross-passage. The fireplace has a cambered chamfered bressumer and chamfered stone jambs with broach stops, along with a moulded axial beam supporting an inserted floor. The building was formerly known as White Cottage.