Gothic Cottage With Steps, Gateway And Boundary Wall

Gothic Cottage with steps, gateway, and boundary wall, built in 1854, is a detached house made of limestone ashlar with stone slate roofs. The cottage features a small picturesque design with Gothic details, including a main range in a reversed T-plan, a small porch at the front, and a lower wing to the left with an additional entry.

The front range has two storeys and two windows. To the left, there is a flush gable with two-light above three-light ovolo mould stone mullioned casements, which have a drip course at the long dropped ends and flush sills. To the right is a small porch with a separate transverse gabled roof, featuring a pointed part-glazed door and cusped trefoil lights on the road and north sides, the latter under a small recessed diamond panel. All gables have saddleback copings on the kneelers, and the front gable displays the date 1854. There is a large ridge stack on a square base with five conjoined diagonal shafts.

The left return is plain, with a quatrefoiled oculus flanked by long horizontal panels with trefoil ends at mid-height. At the end of the left return is a low wing with a pantile roof, which has a nine-pane casement with pointed heads on the top panes and a six-panel door. The south return features a coped gable with a quatrefoil oculus above a three-light ovolo mould stone mullioned small pane casement. At the ground floor, there is a canted bay with two:three:two-lights to hollow mould stone mullions and a stepped hipped stone roof. The rear wing also has a gable and includes one over two small cusped lancets.

The interior has not been inspected. The front of the low entry wing has a broad stone-paved landing and a flight of stone steps with winders leading down to a doorway with a pointed panelled door set in a stone boundary wall with horizontal coping, which is stopped at the outer end by a square ashlar pier.