Weir Cottage

Weir Cottage is a house from the 18th century that was extended in the 19th and 20th centuries. It features painted shale rubble walls, slate sills, and wooden lintels, topped by a rag slate roof with brick chimneys at the gable ends and party wall, along with cast iron ogee gutters. The layout includes a parlour on the left, a slightly larger hall/kitchen on the right, and a passage leading to a stair in a central rear turret projection. There is a small 20th-century extension to the left of the stair, a room from the early to mid-19th century on the left, and a 20th-century extension at right angles that partly projects to the front at the far left. The house is two storeys high with an overall four-window front, including a one-window front from the original house. The central doorway is flanked by ground floor windows that are grouped closer together. A gabled porch with a slate roof leads to the entrance. The windows are 2-light casements, mostly original except for the ground floor windows on either side of the doorway, which date from the early 20th century. The first-floor windows of the original 18th-century house have thick glazing bars with internal ovolo-mouldings and much original crown glass, and all windows are fitted with old external panelled shutters. The interior has seen little alteration, featuring an original 18th-century winder stair with a plank newel and turned balusters leading to a landing balustrade, three 18th-century two-panel doors, and moulded ceiling beams. There is also an early 19th-century top-glazed door to the stair with two diamond-shaped panes. The original roof structures have not been inspected. Weir Cottage is an interesting house with a small stair turret and three surviving original 18th-century casements.