Ship Cottage

Ship Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century, which was remodeled in the mid-18th century and has undergone alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of rubble with a rendered finish and features a slate roof with a front lateral stack.

The building appears to have originally been a 2 or 3-room house with a passage, with the former lower end located to the left. The entrance leads directly into the remaining room, which has an inserted staircase at the rear of the former passage. The hall, situated to the right, is heated by the front lateral stack. The walls seem to have been raised to two storeys during the 18th or 19th-century remodeling.

The house has two storeys and an attic. The ground floor includes a porch bay that projects to the left, featuring an 18th-century four-panelled and glazed door. Above this, there is a two-light casement window on the first and second floors, with a smaller window on the second floor. To the right, there is a lateral stack with a four-pane sash window on the ground floor and another on the first floor, along with a dormer above that also has a four-pane sash.

Inside, the ground floor room contains five chamfered cross beams, with intermediate beams dating from the later 19th century. In the rear left corner, there is a boxed winder staircase with slender turned balusters and a moulded handrail. On the first floor, there are two rooms at the front with four-panelled doors; the room to the left features vertical panelling. The staircase continues to the second floor, where it has similar balusters and a columnar newel at the landing. The room to the right on the second floor has a two-bay roof with one row of purlins, a heavy principal rafter, and a rounded tie-beam at the partition between the two rooms, with one rounded purlin that appears to be made from reused ship's timbers.