Hartlake Cottage Hartlake Farmhouse

Hartlake Cottage and Hartlake Farmhouse are a late 17th and early 18th century farmhouse, which was modernised and divided into two dwellings around 1976. The building is timber-framed, resting on ragstone footings. The ground floor is underbuilt with plastered brick, while the first floor is clad in peg tiles. It has brick stacks and chimneyshafts and a peg-tile roof.

Originally, the farmhouse had a double-depth plan, facing southwest, with a front and back room on either side of a central front doorway, alongside an entrance hall and main stair. The front rooms were the principal rooms, with a parlour to the left and a kitchen to the right. Both rooms have gable-end stacks; the larger kitchen stack projects and incorporates an oven housing. There were unheated service rooms to the rear. In approximately 1976, the house was divided, with Hartlake Cottage occupying the left (parlour) side, and Hartlake Farmhouse the right (kitchen) side. Hartlake Cottage has an entrance through a circa 1970 extension on the left end, while Hartlake Farmhouse retains the original front doorway.

The building is two storeys high, with attic space in the roof. The front facade has a nearly symmetrical appearance with three replacement 20th-century casement windows, each containing rectangular, beaded panes. A contemporary gabled porch on plain timber posts shelters a central 20th-century replacement front door and side light. The symmetry is disrupted by a single gabled dormer to the right of centre. The front roof is gable-ended, and the rear part has two parallel roofs at right angles to the front roof, both of which are half-hipped. The left-end extension and porch are constructed in a matching style.

The interior was rearranged in circa 1976, and little original carpentry detail is visible. The main stair has been rebuilt. The former kitchen fireplace is blocked, but a good fireplace is reported from the former parlour. The main structure appears to be well-preserved.