Cottage And Adjoining Barn 60 Metres To North Of Downrow

This building consists of a cottage and an adjoining barn, located 60 metres north of Downrow. The cottage likely dates from the 17th century, while the barn was added around the early 19th century. It is constructed from local slate stone rubble and features a rag slate roof, with a gable end on the right and a lower roof with a hipped end on the left.

On the right gable end of the house, there is a projecting stone rubble stack, which was incorporated as an axial stack when the barn was added. The left side has a projecting rear lateral stack with a cloam oven projection. The building is situated on a slope, with the ground rising to the right. The house appears to have a two-room plan, with a direct entrance into the right-hand room, which is heated by the gable end stack. The lower range on the left is heated by the rear lateral stack and features a cloam oven projection. A straight joint between the right and left rooms suggests that there was an extension or partial rebuilding, and the lower left gable end appears to have been partially rebuilt, indicating that the house may have originally extended further to the left.

In the early 19th century, a single-storey barn was added to the higher right gable end and was later extended to the right, possibly in the mid-19th century. The two-storey domestic range on the left has an asymmetrical two-window front, with a higher roof on the right-hand range. The right-hand range features a circa 19th-century plank stable-type door, with the remains of a possibly 19th-century porch leading directly into it. There is a three-light casement window to the right, and the first floor has a one-light casement in the left-hand range and a two-light casement to the right. The ground floor room on the left side is lit by a 20th-century window in the left side wall. There is also a lean-to outshot at the rear on the left and a single-storey barn on the right with double plank doors.

Inside the domestic range, the right-hand room has a slate flag floor, a 19th-century fireplace, and 19th-century ceiling beams. The left-hand room and the first floor were not inspected. The barn features an early 19th-century oak-pegged collar rafter roof. The elevations of the building are particularly picturesque and largely unaltered.