Tudor Cottage

This is a house, likely dating from the late 16th or early 17th century, and subject to alterations around 1700 and in the 18th century. A further addition was made in the early 19th century to the left side, with some 20th-century alterations also occurring. The house is constructed from sandstone rubble with a tiled roof. There are stacks to the right side of the main hall, to the left side of the 19th-century additions, and to the rear corner of the rear wing. Originally a 3-room and through-passage house, the lower end is now a separate dwelling, known as Dexter’s Cottage.

During the 17th century, the hall was extended forward, and a rear wing was added, likely serving as a kitchen wing. Further internal alterations occurred around 1700. In the 19th century, a two-room addition, each room heated, was built, incorporating a new front entrance. The original through passage and access to the lower end have been blocked. A staircase is now located in the hall, positioned against the passage wall.

The front elevation features a two-storey addition to the left, with a hipped roof. It contains a panelled door with an overlight and a two-light casement, both with segmental heads, and a gabled dormer above. The hall bay projects to the right, also with a hipped roof and a stack to its right side. A 2-light casement with a segmental head is at ground floor level on the left side, and a three-light casement with irregular glazing bars is on the ground floor of the front, set within the former opening of a mullioned window. At first floor, above the three-light casement, is a two-light casement under the eaves. The right side of the hall has a two-light casement at ground floor to the left of the external stack. The left-hand side has a central door with an eight-pane sash window above, a two-light casement at ground floor to the right, a brick stack on the right, and another on the left.

The rear of the rear wing has a half-gable end, an external stack, a small ingle light at ground floor to the left, and a three-light casement to the right, topped by a slate dripstone. At first floor, there is a two-light casement, and a chimney corbels out to the right corner with a brick stack. The 19th-century addition to the right has a glazed door and a two-light casement with segmental heads, as well as a two-light gabled dormer.

Inside, the passage has an early 18th-century front door with a glazed panel and strap hinges. An upward step leads to the hall, which features a stone floor and a three-bay ceiling supported by two chamfered cross beams with mortices and plain rafters. The hall stack has a bolection-moulded chimneypiece, panelling, and a dado rail, with panelled cheeks to the windows. A wide newel stair is situated by the hall stack. The rear wing single-room plan has a fireplace with a heavy timber lintel, and the outer wall has vertical panelling. An ingle light has a granite hollow-chamfered jamb. One chamfered ceiling beam remains. The inner wall contains two 18th-century cupboards with shaped shelves of different patterns, panelled to the rear, and ovolo-moulded pine panelling between. A re-used panelled cupboard door, originally from the former Post Office in West Street, Millbrook, is also present. There is a two-panelled door to a room in the rear wing, with a corner fireplace for a corbelled chimney.