Church Cottage And Ferryman'S House

A pair of houses, originally late 17th or early 18th century, with later additions and alterations from the early to mid-19th century. Church Cottage, on the left, is built of roughly coursed limestone rubble with a stone slate roof, and artificial slates to the rear. It may have originally been two cottages, or have had a three-unit baffle-entry plan. It has two storeys and an attic. The windows are casements, with wood lintels, set directly below the eaves, and three windows to the ground floor; one to either side of a boarded door to the left, and one to the right of a 20th-century lean-to porch. Most windows are from the early 19th century, except for one above the porch, which is a 20th-century replacement. There are two gabled dormers in the roof slope, a truncated integral end stack to the left, a ridge stack to the left of the porch, and an integral end stack abutting the end stack of the Ferryman’s House. A 19th-century lean-to with a boarded door is attached to the left gable end.

The Ferryman’s House is also built of roughly coursed limestone rubble, with slate roofs. It is divided into two sections: the left and lower section has two glazing bar sashes to each floor, with horns to the ground floor, while the right section has a two-storey canted bay window (with four-paned sashes on each floor) on the right side, and a glazing bar sash above a six-panel door with a semi-circular fanlight to the left. Both the door and window are set within plain stone surrounds. Integral end stacks are present in the lower section, and an integral ashlar end stack with a dripstone and moulded capping is located to the right of the upper section.

The interior of Church Cottage features chamfered spine beams and joists in two ground-floor rooms to the left of the ridge stack, in the middle room with stepped ogee stops, and in the room to the right. The ridge stack has an inglenook fireplace with a chamfered wood lintel, and an infilled inglenook fireplace to the right of the stack. An oak winder staircase leads from the ground floor to the first floor, to the right of the ridge stack, and another staircase runs from the first floor to the attic, to the right of the right stack. The first-floor rooms also have chamfered spine beams and joists. The attic has a double butt-purlin roof in two bays to each side of the ridge stack; the left truss has a collar. 19th-century single-storey service ranges and 20th-century additions to the rear are not considered of special architectural interest.