Somerset Cottage And Attached Railings, And The Old Chapel

This is a mid-16th century house, with a left section later converted into a Baptist Chapel around 1784. The house is constructed from coursed limestone rubble; the right gable wall is rendered. It has a stone slate roof, with 20th-century brick stacks and a stone stack to the left. The building originally comprised three rooms arranged in a through-passage plan. The chapel is in a late 18th-century Gothic style.

The house has two storeys and a four-window front. The chapel has a central gabled porch with a pointed arch, impost blocks to a 20th-century door, and moulded kneelers to the coping. This is flanked by two two-light leaded windows with Y-tracery, set within semi-circular brick arches on the left and stone arches on the right. A timber lintel sits above a plank door, which has a mid-16th century moulded wooden architrave and a four-centred arch. The house’s front elevation has a central, mid-20th century gabled porch flanked by timber lintels over 18th-century three-light leaded casements, with two late 19th-century gabled roof dormers. The roof is gabled, with remodelled ridge and right gable end stacks; a 16th-century external gable end stack is positioned to the left. A 18th-century three-light leaded casement is visible in the right gable wall.

At the rear of Somerset Cottage is an early 19th-century gabled single-storey extension. Attached to the rear left of the Old Chapel is an 18th-century gabled two-storey extension.

The interior of Somerset Cottage was remodelled in the early 19th century and contains panelled shutters, six-panelled doors, and fireplaces. The roof features a four-bay collar truss design, and there is a straight flight of stairs with winders. The attic and ground floor retain a 17th-century panelled door. The left side of the ground floor also contains an open fireplace with a chamfered bressumer, and chamfered stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops to the right. The interior of the Old Chapel has not been inspected, but is likely to be of interest.

Late 18th-century wrought-iron railings are set on a low rubble wall to the front of Somerset Cottage.