Wychwood Cottage

Wychwood Cottage is a house, likely dating from the early 18th century, with alterations from the 19th and 20th centuries. It was originally a pair of attached houses. The construction is stone rubble, with the upper level in cob, all rendered and painted. The roof is shingled with gable ends, and there are brick gable end stacks. The original plan comprised two one-room-plan houses attached, with paired central entrances and a room on either side, each heated by a gable end stack. A shallow, unheated outshut was added behind the room to the right, probably in the 19th century. The doorway to the left-hand house has been blocked.

The front of the property is asymmetrical, with a three-window façade. On the ground floor, there is a two-light, eight-pane casement with L hinges and a timber lintel to the right and left. The central doorways have a nine-pane window inserted into the doorway on the left, and a 20th-century half-glazed door and shallow open-fronted wooden porch with a pitched roof to the right. The first floor has two two-light, six-pane casements with L hinges to the left and a two-light, eight-pane casement with L hinges to the right, all dating to the 19th century. The left end has two 20th-century single-light windows at first floor and a single-storey 20th-century addition in the ground floor with a window to the front and a door in the gable end. A 20th-century single-light window sits at the first floor of the right end. A rendered single-storey lean-to with a corrugated asbestos roof and a two-light window is on the right side. The rear outshut is single-storey with a catslide roof. It contains a 20th-century window, a plank door with an overlight, and a plank door with a glazed panel at the left end.

Inside the outshut is a straight stair. The room on the ground floor to the right has roughly hewn beams and a blocked gable end fireplace. The remainder of the house was inaccessible at the time of survey in October 1987, but it may contain features such as beams and fireplaces.