Timberyard Cottages

Timberyard Cottages are probably early 17th century, with some fragments from the 14th century, and were remodelled in the early 19th century. They started as a farmhouse or possibly a manor house and are now divided into cottages. The construction is of limestone and marlstone rubble, with some limestone ashlar quoins and timber lintels. The roofs are covered with Stanesfield slate and Welsh slate and have brick stacks. The original design was a 2-unit through-passage plan with a crosswing and rear wings.

The main range has a passage entrance on the far left, with a plank door positioned between large 3-light casement windows. The first floor has similar windows, including a 2-light casement above the passage door. A crosswing to the left, which projects to the rear, has 20th-century windows. The rear of the main range is largely hidden by two low wings, but retains a continuously-moulded pointed 14th-century archway at the rear of the passage. The rear roof slope is covered with stone slates.

Inside, there is a large open fireplace backing onto the through passage and massive stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops. The roof of the main range has two rows of butt purlins and no ridge beam. The through passage may have been built on the site of a former screens passage; the mutilated doorway from the passage to the crosswing may be a second 14th-century archway.