Cotswold Cottage And Pear Tree Cottage With Attached Barn

A farmhouse, now divided into two cottages (Cotswold Cottage and Pear Tree Cottage) with an attached barn, likely dating from the late 17th century with extensions and alterations in the early to mid-19th century and later changes. The construction is of uncoursed limestone rubble, with stone slate roofs. The building follows a basic L-plan, with the barn attached to the gable end of a projecting range.

Cotswold Cottage has two storeys. The main range features a four-light 19th-century casement window directly below the eaves on the left side, and a three-light casement on the right. Similar 19th-century casements with moulded wooden lintels are on the ground floor, two to the left and one to the right of a boarded door situated in the angle with the projecting range. The projecting range includes a 19th-century casement below the eaves on the left and a blocked doorway to the right. Integral end stacks exist; one with a dripstone and moulded brick capping, and another red brick ridge stack. The projecting range has its own integral brick end stack. Pear Tree Cottage features two 19th-century casements on each floor of its projecting range, with those on the first floor directly below the eaves, and one on each floor to the gable. A boarded door is located between the two cottages. A short gabled range is situated at a right angle to the rear on the left side of Cotswold Cottage, and there’s a lean-to to the rear of Pear Tree Cottage.

The barn, attached to the gable end of the projecting range, has a plank door to the left, two casements to the centre, and plank double doors within a half-hipped angled splay.

Internally, Cotswold Cottage's ground-floor room in the main range has a chamfered spine beam with run-out stops, a stone inglenook fireplace with a moulded wooden lintel and a bread oven to the right. A late 18th-century inset wall cupboard is located to the right, likely in the original position of the staircase, and inset panelled cupboards are on either side of the doorway leading to the rear range, all dating to the 18th century. A dog-leg staircase, probably inserted in the 18th century, is also present. The moulded handrail has sawn-off balusters, likely originally of the splat type, and a square newel with a missing finial, all dating to the late 17th century and likely brought in from elsewhere. Pear Tree Cottage was undergoing extensive renovation at the time of a resurvey in May 1987.