Dapdune Farm Cottage, including attached outbuildings, and yard wall

Dapdune Farm Cottage, including attached outbuildings, and yard wall

Dapdune Farm Cottage is a farm cottage with attached outbuildings and yard wall, built around 1835 as part of a planned farmstead. The buildings are constructed of local Bargate stone with yellow brick dressings and chimney pots, with clay tile roofs and timber windows and doors.

The cottage is rectangular in plan with a pitched roof, running broadly north to south. It was originally linked to the farmhouse opposite by a shallow U-shaped range, over half of which has been demolished, leaving a surviving section to the north of the cottage. The farm's yard, originally enclosed on three sides by the buildings, had been split in two between the cottage and the farmhouse by 1870. Most of the stone wall which enclosed the cottage yard survives, although in poor repair.

The cottage has an unaltered plan form: three rooms wide and one room deep. It is entered from the east, between the two southerly rooms, into a small lobby with a straight flight of stairs ahead running the depth of the building. Rooms lead off from either side of the stair at ground and first floors, with a short hallway to the north at first floor. At ground floor the kitchen is at the north end, accessed via the middle room but also having its own external door from the yard. Externally the doors and windows are arranged irregularly across the east elevation, but are neatly ordered into three bays to the west. The building has two ridge stacks, one with a cluster of four pots, the other with two.

The cottage has a proportionately long, narrow footprint, with its wide east elevation facing the yard. To the south the roof projects over the gable wall face and has a shaped timber bargeboard. Beneath is an arched first-floor window with Gothic style timber tracery. The chimney stacks are of stone above the roof but terminate in clusters of tall octagonal yellow brick pots.

The east elevation has an irregular pattern of fenestration, while the west elevation, facing onto the River Wey, has a more regular pattern and features flint galetting. The original timber casement windows with glazing bars survive, as do the original doors in the east elevation. The main door has four panels with button beading and an iron knocker, and the kitchen door is of plank construction, the distinction reflecting the hierarchy of the two entrances.

Internally, the cottage is very little altered. The simple joinery of the stairs, internal four-panel and plank doors, architraves, and some built-in cupboards survive. Part of the stair enclosure and the first-floor partition wall between the hall and central bedroom are of studwork clad in vertical timber boarding. All fireplaces remain open, some with original simple timber surrounds, although they have generally lost their iron inserts, and one downstairs has had a circa 1930 tiled surround added. The kitchen at the north end has painted but unplastered walls.

An L-shaped range of single-storey farm buildings is attached to the north end of the cottage, accessed from the yard. These comprise two enclosed rooms, one believed to have been used as a dairy or cow shed, and what was originally an open-fronted store, probably for carts or stabling. The west and north elevations of the outbuildings share the more decorative elements of the cottage, with galetted stone walls and shaped bargeboard around a gable verge to the north. There is an arched window opening in the gable end, although the window has been replaced. Facing east and south into the yard, the farm buildings are largely timber-framed. The short section to the north of the cottage is part stone-built, part timber clad in wany-edge board, and has two doorways. The east-west range appears to have been originally open-fronted; the openings are now infilled with concrete block. This range is open to the roof and has simple queen-post trusses, with painted but unplastered walls.