Little Bote House

Little Bote House is a former farmhouse, possibly dating back to the 17th century, with possible earlier origins, and enlarged in the late 19th century. Some 20th-century modernisation has also occurred. The building is timber-framed, with the ground floor underbuilt in Flemish bond red brick, incorporating older brickwork with burnt headers. Original footings are of coursed sandstone. The building features brick stacks, one of which has a sandstone base, and a peg-tile roof.

The house follows a four-room lobby entrance plan, facing east and built up a hillslope, ending on the road. The two main rooms are on the left (south) side, with a large axial stack between them serving back-to-back fireplaces. A lobby entrance is positioned in front of this stack. A room to the right of centre has a rear lateral stack, and the right-end room has a projecting end stack. A straight join in the front brickwork suggests that the two northern rooms were added to the original front two rooms, or that less substantial rooms existed at that end and were later rebuilt; the front two rooms appear to represent the historic core of the house. Without internal inspection, a full understanding of the room functions or the complete historic development of the house cannot be determined.

The house is two storeys high with attics in the roofspace, and includes lean-to outshots on the right end and to the rear. The irregular front has five windows. First-floor windows are 19th century, consisting of four 16-pane sashes and one 8-pane sash above and to the right of the front doorway. Ground-floor windows are 20th-century timber mullion-and-transom windows, some with rectangular or diamond panes of leaded glass. A 20th-century sandstone gabled porch with a Tudor arch, containing a reused or reset 19th-century Tudor-style panelled door, is located left of centre on the front. The roof is tall and steeply pitched, half-hipped to the right and hipped to the left. The south end wall is tile hung down to the footings.

The interior was not accessible for inspection, but 17th-century (or possibly earlier) carpentry is suspected.