Whitestone Cottage

Whitestone Cottage is a small house with an attached former brewhouse, dating from the 18th century. The building is constructed from limewashed rubble and cob, featuring a wheat-reed thatched roof on the original house, with rubble end stacks, while the remainder has a 20th-century scantle slate roof. A large stepped rubble stack is located towards the right, mostly on the exterior, and there is a brick axial stack over the single-storey section on the right.

The house has a shallow L-plan layout with two front rooms: a kitchen/living room on the left, which includes a pantry and a stair outshut behind it, and a parlour on the right. Adjacent to the parlour is a rectangular brewhouse with a loft above, plus a single-storey extension at the far right. The building stands two storeys tall and has an overall four-window range. The original house features a symmetrical three-window front with either original or 20th-century replica 12-pane horizontal-sliding sash windows, except for a 9-pane hornless sash window on the ground floor right and a central doorway with a planked door.

The brewhouse has hornless sashes with glazing bars that rise into the 19th-century heightened eaves. There is a doorway left of centre with an old planked door and small flanking window openings, including an old fixed light on the left and a 20th-century window on the right. The rear of the brewhouse has a blocked former loading doorway.

Inside, the cottage retains many original features, including plank and muntin partitions and irregular nailed collar trusses with battens and purlins for the thatch. There is also a tiled iron grate from around 1900 in the parlour.