The Cottage

The Cottage is a house dating from the late 17th to early 18th century, with alterations and additions made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of painted stone rubble, with an asbestos slate roof covered in ridge tiles and gable ends. A stone stack is located at the left gable, and an axial stack is at the right, with 20th-century brick shafts. The original layout comprised two rooms: a larger kitchen heated by the left-hand gable stack, and a smaller parlour heated by a stack on the right. A passage separated the two rooms. Around the 19th century, a shippon with a loft was added to the right end, and it is now integrated into the house. The front elevation is asymmetrical, with three windows across two storeys. The first floor has three 20th-century, two-light, two-pane casement windows. The ground floor has a plank door with a glazed panel, set slightly to the right, alongside two 19th-century, three-light, three-pane casements to the left, and one 19th-century, two-light, three-pane casement to the right; all have timber lintels. The shippon section includes a doorway with a window containing six panes and a timber lintel, along with two 20th-century rooflights. A stepped external stack is present at the left end, featuring a curved oven at its base. A single two-pane casement window is on the first floor to the right. A 20th-century door is located at the right end. The rear elevation features a 20th-century door and two-pane window to the left, a small single light at the rear of the passage, a 20th-century window with a timber lintel to the right, and a three-pane, 20th-century window at the rear of the shippon. Internally, the gable end fireplaces have been rebuilt in the 20th century. The parlour contains 19th-century ceiling beams, and the kitchen has narrow-chamfered beams. The house likely retains other original features, such as early joinery, including doors.