Corner Cottage And Hussar Cottage And Attached Stable Range

A pair of houses, Corner Cottage and Hussar Cottage, with an attached stable range, dating from the early and mid-18th century, with later additions and alterations. The original part, Corner Cottage, is constructed of roughly coursed limestone rubble, with better dressed alternating angle quoins to the west front. Hussar Cottage and the 18th-century addition to Corner Cottage are built of roughly coursed marlstone rubble. Corner Cottage has a stone slate roof with coped verges, while Hussar Cottage has a concrete tile roof with coped verges.

The original house was L-shaped and extended to the right in the mid-18th century; the two right bays have a different roof pitch. Various 19th-century additions were made to the rear. The front elevation has three windows to the early 18th-century part. The windows are glazing bar sashes within moulded stone architraves, with projecting keystones, with a ground-floor centre where a doorway has been filled in. There are two 19th-century gabled dormers in the roof slope. Integral end stacks have moulded dripstones and capping to the left and right, the right stack now being a ridge stack at the junction with the mid-18th-century addition. The addition to the right has a glazing bar sash in a similar architrave to the first floor and a cut-down architrave to the ground floor for a 20th-century French window. The section under a different roof pitch has two glazing bar sashes on each floor, with 20th-century gabled dormers directly above in the roof slope. There is an integral rendered end stack to the left and an ashlar ridge stack with a moulded capping and the outline of an earlier roof visible.

A range at an oblique angle to the rear of the early 18th-century part has glazing bar sashes to the first floor and two to the ground floor, set within plain stone surrounds, and a four-panel door below an early 19th-century plain stone Doric porch to the right. The concrete tile roof has coped verges, and an integral end stack with a dripstone and moulded capping. A low 19th-century stable range projects at a right angle to the left of the late 18th-century addition, and a gabled range of one-storey and attic is positioned at a right angle to the rear of the early 18th-century part, featuring a datestone "AD/1844" (although it is likely earlier).

The interior of Corner Cottage reveals a ground-floor room, originally two rooms with a central hall, featuring a chamfered spine beam to the left and a plain spine beam to the right. There is an inglenook fireplace to the left, with a chamfered wood lintel and a bread oven. An early 19th-century staircase, in the range at an oblique angle, has stick balusters to the open string, a wreathed and ramped handrail, a circular newel, and turns in two directions after a straight flight. The gabled range dated "1844" shows the position of a spiral staircase to the right of a lateral fireplace. The first-floor rooms have chamfered cross beams and cast-iron Victorian grates. The roof of the main range has been entirely renewed, with trenched purlins, while the roof of the range at an oblique angle has double butt-purlins. The stables have 19th-century loose boxes with iron grilles.