Cote

Cote is a house that has been converted into a retirement home, dating from around 1720. It is built from pennant rubble with limestone and rubble dressings, featuring two ashlar ridge stacks and a slate hipped roof. The building has a double-depth plan and is designed in an early Georgian style, with two storeys and an attic, presenting a five-window range.

The exterior includes rusticated pilasters at the corners and on the central projecting section, a deep modillion cornice, and a parapet. There is a cornice on fluted consoles above a late 18th-century semicircular doorway, which has panelled sides and a decorative fanlight with a lantern, along with a two-leaf six-panel door. A wide half-glazed inner door leads to a tented wrought-iron verandah with 20th-century glazing. The windows are adorned with polychrome segmental relieving arches over six-over-six pane sashes set in flush boxes, which are taller on the first floor. The building also features three dormers and a central ashlar doorway on the right return, flanked by fluted pilasters and topped with a frieze and cornice.

At the rear, there is an early 19th-century extension that includes paired sashes, four of which have thick early 18th-century glazing bars that have been re-hung from the front. Inside, the central hall is unpainted and features fielded paneling with a vine-leaf cornice. There are two segmental arches leading to a rear framed newel stair, which has column and urn balusters, fluted column newels, and a ramped rail. The first-floor right-hand room boasts full-height paneling and a fireplace with bolection moulding. Cote is a fine and relatively complete early Georgian house situated on a 17th-century site, set within its own landscape that includes a sunken 17th-century garden.