The Cottage

This is an early 17th-century cottage, with later additions and alterations. It is constructed from roughly coursed limestone and ironstone rubble, topped with a stone slate roof. The cottage follows a 2-room central cross-passage plan. It is a single storey with an attic. Modern casement windows with wooden lintels are found to the left and right of a central, chamfered doorway, which has a gabled hood and a 20th-century ledged door. Raking half-dormers are positioned directly above the windows. End stacks are integral to the design; the left stack is ashlar with a moulded dripstone and capping, while the right stack has been rebuilt in engineering brick above the original dripstone.

Inside, the ground floor features a continuous chamfered spine beam, with stepped ogee stops in the left room, and exposed joists. The central passage has a stone-flag floor and is lined with wainscot panelling purported to have come from the Church of St. John the Baptist. The doors to the left and right rooms are made from this same panelling. The roof space reveals a double butt-purlin collar truss roof in three bays. A ground-floor window on the back wall is blocked by the later addition of Rose Cottage to the rear.