Windrush Cottage

Windrush Cottage is a house dating from the early 17th century, with a later 18th-century extension to the left, and 20th-century alterations. The construction is of coursed limestone rubble, with a gabled thatched roof. The ridge stack was originally at one end of the roof and is now finished in 20th-century brick, with a stone stack on the right finished in late 19th/20th-century brick, and a late 18th-century brick stack on the left. It has a two-unit lobby-entry plan, extended to a three-unit plan. The original section is one-and-a-half storeys and has a three-window front, extended by a two-storey, one-window-wide addition. A gabled 20th-century projection, housing a bathroom, stands above a 20th-century door in the second bay from the right; there’s also a 20th-century dormer with a hipped roof to the left. A timber lintel sits above the 20th-century door to the lobby-entry on the left. Timber lintels also cover two early 17th-century three-light, ovolo-moulded wood-mullioned windows, and a late 18th/early 19th-century three-light casement above a 20th-century window in the 18th-century left bay. The rear features timber lintels over a similar three-light window, retaining original leaded lights, and a three-light window with two diamond-set wood mullions set within a heavily pegged, chamfered surround. Inside, the end rooms have chamfered beams. The central room features stop-chamfered beams and a large, chamfered, arched stone lintel over the open fireplace.