Elm Cottage

Elm Cottage is a house dating from around the mid-18th century, possibly with earlier origins, and it was partly remodelled or rebuilt in the mid-19th century. The building is constructed of painted stone rubble and features a rag slate roof, which has a lower hipped end on the left and a gabled end on the right. There is a brick chimney on the front lateral stack to the left and a shallow projecting stone rubble stack on the higher right-hand gable end.

The layout of the house was likely altered in the 19th century. It has a two-room plan with a central entrance and a staircase located at the rear of the entrance. The lower left room is heated by the front lateral stack, while the higher right room is heated by the gable end stack. There is a straight joint to the left of the central entrance, suggesting that the house may have originally been a one-room plan that included the existing right-hand room, which was heated by the gable end stack. This room may have been extended in the mid-19th century to create the second lower left room. Alternatively, the house could have always been a two-room plan that underwent significant remodelling in the mid-19th century, with the lower left room being partly rebuilt. In the late 19th century, a lean-to outshot, likely used as a dairy, was added to the front left.

The main entrance is now located in the hipped lower end on the left. The house is two storeys high and has an asymmetrical single window front with the lean-to outshot on the left. It features a central door with four panels, dating from the late 19th or early 20th century, and a two-light window to the right. The first floor has a one-light casement window with glazing bars positioned to the right of centre. The lower left hipped end has brick segmental arches over the ground floor openings, with a part-glazed 20th-century plank door on the left and a 19th-century two-light casement window to the right. The first floor includes a two-light casement window with glazing bars and a row of pigeon holes below the eaves. There is also a six-pane window in the lean-to outshot on the right. Inside, the lower left room features 19th-century carpentry details, while the remainder of the house is not accessible.