Thatched Cottage

This is an early 17th-century house, significantly altered and rebuilt in the early 18th century, with renovations undertaken in 1963. It has a timber-frame core and external walls of coursed limestone rubble, covered by a thatched roof. The original plan consisted of three rooms, though the eastern room was removed in the early 18th century.

The north facade features a central doorway, a 4x4 fixed window to the east, and two 20th-century casement windows to the west, one of which obscures a former doorway. A further blocked doorway is visible to the far west. Two dormer windows are present; the eastern dormer contains a circa 1720 casement with leaded panes and a Stonefield slatestone sill, while the other is a 20th-century replacement with a similar sill. The west gable is hipped. An external brick gable-end stack is embedded in the adjacent property, with a freestanding stack on the west return.

The south elevation is L-shaped, with the foot of the ‘L’ being an early 18th-century addition. This section has a partly external gable-end stack and a 20th-century casement window on each floor. The main rear elevation has a doorway opposite the north doorway and an 8x8 unhorned sash window to the east. Another dormer contains an early 18th-century 3-light leaded casement with a Stonefield slatestone sill. The west gable-end has a single-light casement, and the extension contains a 2-light early 18th-century leaded casement.

Inside, the original 17th-century front range retains three principal trusses with square-section jowled studs, linked by chamfered bridging beams with run-out stops. One jewelled stop is visible on the beam in the west ground-floor room. Original joists are also present, with chamfers and run-out stops. A chamfered jamb for a former staircase is visible in the west room, alongside three steps leading up to the 18th-century extension, with a 3-plank 17th-century door. The entrance passage has reused panelling; mid 17th-century on the north wall and mid 18th-century raised and fielded panelling to the south. In the cellar of the 18th-century extension, an exposed principal stud reveals that sole plates were not used during its construction.

The roof structure features principal rafters with through purlins trenched into the outer faces of the principals, clasped by trenched collars. The collars were cut out to increase headroom, and the purlins were shaved down to allow the insertion of dormers. The 18th-century extension has a tier of reused butt purlins on either side.