Vine Cottage

Vine Cottage is a farmhouse, now a house, dating to the late 16th century. It was remodelled in the 18th century, with a cottage added to the right (number 12) also in the 18th century. The building is constructed of uncoursed limestone rubble, painted white, with a roughcast section on the left wall. The roof is of old tile, with stone slate farwells at its base. There are brick stacks, except for the central stone stack, which is finished in brick.

The original plan was a two-unit through-passage layout, with the cottage added to the right. The building has one storey and an attic, with a four-window front. The windows consist of timber lintels over three 20th-century plank doors, one 20th-century casement window, and three three-light leaded casements. One leaded casement has plank shutters. Two gabled dormers to the left have three-light leaded casements; one dormer displays a fire insurance plaque. Lower gabled dormers to the right have a 20th-century casement window and one late 19th-century two-light casement. The roof is gabled, with ridge stacks in the centre and right, and an 18th-century off-ridge gable end stack to the left.

The rear wall has timber lintels above two-light leaded casements, a raking dormer with a two-light leaded casement, and two gabled dormers, one of which has two-light leaded casements.

Inside number 13, the central area has an 18th-century brick floor. There are also 18th-century two-panelled and plank doors. Chamfered beams are present in the left and right rooms, tenoned into a central timber-framed partition wall just to the right of the left door, providing access to an 18th-century straight-flight staircase. The left unit is divided by an axial timber-framed partition into two rooms, originally a buttery and pantry, which were later heated. A quarter-turn staircase adjoins the right wall of number 13. To the left of the central stone stack is an apex roof with halved and notched details and trenched and staggered purlins; the roof to the right of the stack is obscured. The interior of number 12 was not inspected but is likely to be of interest.