Quaker Cottage

Quaker Cottage is a cottage built in the style of a Swiss chalet, dated 1862 and constructed for R.W. Fox. It features weatherboard on a timber frame, with a dry Delabole slate roof on the main part and a Spanish slate roof on a likely addition. The cottage has deep projecting eaves and verges, with crested and pierced wooden barge boards on the gable ends. A central brick chimney rises over the original house, equipped with six chimney pots, three of which are original octagonal pots.

The layout likely consists of two full-depth rooms on the ground floor and four chambers above, partly in the roof space. There is also a two-room plan wing, probably added in the 20th century, set back at right angles on the left, along with a 20th-century lean-to porch on the right. The exterior is two storeys high, with an original nearly symmetrical west front gable end featuring a doorway slightly left of the center. It has mid-floor and roof-collar level fretted string courses with pendants. The ledged door includes two small lights in the upper part, and there are three-light casements on the left and right, along with a group of four two-light casements in the middle of the gable ends. The windows have single panes in each light, likely replacing the original leaded glazing. A date plaque is positioned in the middle of the gable.

The interior, which was not inspected, is said to retain many original features. Notably, this house is built on the site of a former gazebo from 1790.