Primrose Cottage, Gate Piers And Garden Walls To Front

Primrose Cottage, along with its gate piers and garden walls at the front, dates back to 1818. The building features a mix of rubble that includes reused 17th-century ovolo-moulded dressed granite used as ground floor lintels, with rendered cob on the first floor front and dressed granite and slate sills. The roof is covered with asbestos slate and has a brick chimney over the rubble gable end on the left and over the party wall on the right. There is a parallel hipped roof over what are likely later service rooms at the rear, with a brick chimney on the left side.

The original layout of the house consisted of a kitchen on the left and a parlour on the right, with a passage between that leads to the stairs. The house was extended shortly after its construction with a parallel range at the rear, which includes a back kitchen on the left and a pantry or dairy on the right, now combined into one room.

The building is two storeys high and has a nearly symmetrical three-window front facing southeast, with a central doorway. The original six-panel door and twelve-pane horizontal sliding sash windows remain intact. The date and initials "T J" are incised on the lintel above the doorway.

Inside, there is a large fireplace with an oven in the left-hand room, bowtell moulded beams, and some pine muntin and plank partitions. The front garden features central round-headed dressed granite gate piers with shallow granite ashlar plinths, which were originally topped with iron railings.

This rare dated house has seen little alteration since it was built, and it would be interesting to learn more about the origins of the ovolo-moulded lintels.