The Cottage

The Cottage is a house dating from the late 16th century, with alterations made in the 18th and 19th centuries. Originally timber-framed, it features a roughcast exterior and a gabled roof covered with old tiles. A large rendered ridge stack, finished with 19th-century diagonally-set brick flues, is complemented by two similar flues on the left end stack. The building has a three-unit plan, is two storeys tall with an attic, and has a three-window range.

The front includes a mid-18th century six-panelled door and a mid-19th century sash window set in a blocked 18th-century coach house entry to the left. There is also a mid-19th century half-glazed door flanked by paired late 18th-century sashes and an early 19th-century canted bay window with casements. On the first floor, there are two late 18th-century sashes and one mid-19th century sash. A notable feature is a late 16th-century four-light wood-mullioned and transomed ovolo-moulded window in the right gable wall.

At the rear, there is a stair-turret with a two-light wood-mullioned ovolo-moulded window, and above it, a three-light wood-mullioned chamfered window sits above a three-light wood-mullioned and transomed ovolo-moulded window, which has butterfly hinges for a 19th-century opening light.

Inside, the Cottage features 18th-century six-panelled doors, a stop-chamfered wood bressumer, and stone jambs surrounding a large open fireplace. The rear and stair-turret have timber-studded partitions, and there is a wide newel staircase. The first floor includes a moulded stone fireplace and exposed timber framing, with a five-bay collar-truss roof supported by butt purlins and windbraces. The bressumer of the ground-floor fireplace bears graffiti initials "J.S.", likely representing John Stonhouse, whose family owned Radley Park in the late 16th century.