Dexter'S Cottage

Dexter’s Cottage is a house dating to the late 16th or early 17th century, with subsequent alterations including 18th-century internal changes and a 20th-century division from the adjacent houses, including Tudor Cottage. It is constructed of sandstone rubble, partly rendered, with a tiled roof. The cottage represents the lower portion of a three-room and through-passage house, with the upper portion being Tudor Cottage. The original lower end room was divided to create an entrance hall, and in the 18th century, a straight staircase was inserted to the right of the room, at the front, along with a single-room rear wing, including a kitchen outshut to the rear. A further single-room addition, possibly a late 18th or early 19th-century dairy, was added to the right. A fireplace may have originally existed in the lower end room; a flue remains on the interior side of the dairy. The cottage is two storeys high, with a 20th-century porch with a pitched roof covering the entire front, which also incorporates the passage entrance to Tudor Cottage to the left. The first-floor level is rendered, and contains a three-light casement window. The rear of the rear wing features two single-light windows, one on each side of a brick stack, alongside a single-storey lean-to with a hipped roof. The right side of the wing includes a 19th-century glazed door and window opening with a splayed brick head, along with a two-light and a three-light gabled dormer. The rear of the lower end room displays a single light at ground floor and two small single lights under the eaves, topped with a hipped roof. The right side is noted for a half-glazed door and a three-light gabled dormer, with the end wall rebuilt and containing a brick flue for a former copper. A former stable is attached to the left, now forming part of No. 3 The Cottages. The interior of the lower end room features a stone floor and an 18th-century straight staircase to the right, with turned balusters. A rear room has three narrow-chamfered beams. A winder stair to the left side is boxed in with late 18th-century vertical panelling, while the first floor has stick balusters. A rear ground floor room contains a cupboard with an 18th-century two-panelled door.