Botelet Cottage

Botelet Cottage is a house that was part of a former manor house, dating from the late 16th century or early 17th century. It features rubble stone walls with renewed timber lintels over the openings and an asbestos slate roof with gable ends. There is a rendered stack on the right-hand gable end. The building has a single depth plan and has been altered to create two rooms and a dairy. Originally, the house extended to the south (left) but has since been reduced in length at that end. Some of the former front walls from the demolished section have been integrated into the rear walls of the adjoining outbuildings, which extend beyond the left-hand gable end.

The cottage is two storeys high with a regular three-window front. The ground floor is partly obscured by single-storey outbuildings that project from the left-hand side. A timber plank door is positioned near the centre, with a two-light casement window with glazing bars to the right. Above, there are three two-light casements with glazing bars. The central part of the wall is slightly set forward due to a partial rebuild in the early 20th century, and the eaves slope downwards over this projection. There is a fire window in the right-hand gable end.

Inside, the ceiling beams on the right-hand side are chamfered with scroll stops, while the beams in the left-hand room have been replaced. A simple timber plank screen separates the staircase from the right-hand room. The fireplace in the right-hand gable end is partly blocked by a mid-19th century fireplace featuring a brick segmental arch, with a later cloam oven in front of the earlier one. The roof consists of six bays with chamfered principals and chamfered cambered collars, with slightly lower collars on the fourth and fifth principals.

Historically, the manor was held by Oswulf before 1066 and by Odo from the Count in 1086. It later belonged to the Bottreaux family, Robartes, and Trevilles. William of Worcester noted in the time of Edward IV that "Castellum Bodleet dirutum prope Tremedart villa ubi colsell Chevalier hamet mansionem."