The Cottage

The Cottage is a house dating to approximately 1700, with a 20th-century addition. It is timber-framed, with the front elevation clad in weatherboarding, and the returns underbuilt in brick to first-floor level, above which they are weatherboarded (left return) or tile-hung (right return). The roof is covered in peg tiles, and there are brick stacks.

The house faces approximately east. Originally two cottages – information from the current owner – it has a plan consisting of two rooms wide, with a slightly off-centre entrance, which was formerly flanked by paired front doors. The front rooms are heated from end stacks. A rear outshut was probably integral, and a rear right outshut was raised to a gable-ended wing at right angles in the 20th century.

The two-storey front elevation has a slightly asymmetrical two-window arrangement under a mansard roof. A left-end stack projects, with tile-hung set-offs. A plank stable door, likely dating to the 19th century, is located to the right of centre, sheltered by a flat hood supported on brackets. The first floor has two two-light 18th-century sliding sash windows: one with 6 panes and the other with 9 panes. The ground floor window on the left is a 19th-century 3-light casement with 4 panes per light. The ground floor window on the right is a 2-light casement with 9 panes per light.

The interior includes exposed carpentry of slender scantling in both front rooms, with open fireplaces and timber lintels. The partition between the left-hand room and the outshut has been removed. A staircase rises from the front left room within the outshut. Original timbers are said to survive within the roof.