Hartsmere Cottage

Hartsmere Cottage is a cottage dating from the 16th century, with significant alterations and extensions in the 19th century; a left-hand extension is dated 1807. It is timber-framed with rubble stone infilling to the left end, rendered brick cladding to the front, and sandstone rubble and brick extensions to the rear. The roof is tiled, with a ridge cresting.

The original rear elevation, now the rear, features a stone-coped parapet which partially obscures the roof. Here, there are four 16-pane glazing bar sash windows on the first floor, towards the left, along with a roughcast bay window to the right with a wooden entablature and continuous leaded casement windows on the top floor. A single leaded casement window is on the first floor and a tripartite sash window on the ground floor to the left. The ground floor centre has two glazing bar sash windows, a wood-mullioned and transomed leaded casement window under a pediment in the bay, and a cambered head glazing bar sash window to the right. A half-glazed door is positioned to the left of the centre, within an architrave surround. There is an end stack to the left and a front ridge stack to the right of centre, with a further end ridge stack to the right.

The rear elevation, now the front, has a gabled wing to the right and a central roof that is hipped and tile-hung, with a brick dormer under the main roof which sweeps down over catslides on either side. A gabled wing extends to the left, with a hip to the rear. The rear features irregular casement windows, a single-storey extension to the end with a stable-style door, and a further half-glazed door within a gabled porch to the right of centre.