Godolphin Cottage

Godolphin Cottage is likely a count house with adjoining domestic accommodation and a grooms cottage, possibly once featuring a forge. It dates from the early 19th century. The front is finished in stucco with an asbestos slate roof, while the rest is made of painted rubble with grouted scantle slate roofs, having a polygonal and hipped roof over the grooms cottage on the left, and gable ends elsewhere.

The building is a single-storey, double-depth count house with two front rooms and shallower rear rooms, connected by a central cross passage leading to a two-storey house behind, which is slightly offset to the right and faces the opposite direction. This house has a central doorway and staircase between its two original rooms, with a later lean-to obscuring part of its original front.

The single-cell, two-storey grooms cottage is attached to the left side of the count house. It has a polygonal plan that tapers due to the entrance lane, and there is evidence of a removed fireplace, possibly a forge, in the rear right corner. The grooms cottage features a symmetrical single-storey south front with two windows (the wall continues blind further to the left), a central Doric doorway with fluted pilasters and panelled reveals and soffit, and a six-panel door with the top four panels later glazed, accessed by three steps.

The count house retains original 16-pane hornless sash windows, including one original ground floor sash and a panelled door at the front. The left side of the house was demolished later in the 19th century when the lean-to was added. The grooms cottage has a four-panel door and a small window to light each floor, with the upper floor partly in the roof space. The interior of the building is virtually complete and unaltered since the 19th century, featuring original doors, floors, and stairs. This is a rare example of a single-storey count house that remains nearly unchanged since it was built.