Walts Cottage

Walts Cottage is a farmhouse and adjoining cottage, now combined into a single dwelling. The farmhouse likely dates to the early 17th century, with the adjoining cottage probably built in the mid-19th century. The farmhouse is constructed of stone rubble with dressed granite quoins. It has a scantle slate roof with gable ends, while the cottage has a rag slate roof with gable ends. Chimney stacks of stone rubble are on the gable ends of the farmhouse, with the left-hand stack shared by the cottage.

The original farmhouse probably had a two-room plan with a through passage, featuring a larger hall/kitchen on the right heated by a gable end stack and a parlour on the left also heated by a gable end stack. The internal partitions have been removed, obscuring their original locations. A small outshut extension is at the rear. The adjoining cottage was one of a pair of double-depth cottages, with an entrance on the left, likely leading into a stair hall and a principal room on the front right, alongside a small service room to the rear. Its partner cottage to the left is in separate ownership.

The front elevation is asymmetrical, with a 1:1 window arrangement and two storeys. The farmhouse occupies the right-hand side, featuring a lower roof with a 20th-century ground-floor window on the left and a part-glazed 20th-century door recessed within a rendered, gabled porch to the left of centre. There is no window opening to the hall/kitchen on the front right. The first floor has a two-light 19th-century casement to the left of centre and a small timber window opening with a cusped head on the far right, directly below the eaves. This opening is deeply splayed externally and blocked internally. The rear elevation includes a 19th-century three-light casement, providing light to the hall/kitchen.

The cottage on the right has a four-pane sash window in the blocked entrance on the left, a sash without glazing bars on the right, and a four-pane sash in the first floor. The masonry on the rear elevation and right-hand side suggests it may have earlier origins.

Internally, the farmhouse features ovolo-moulded ceiling beams with bar and scroll stops. A 20th-century chimney-piece is present in the parlour on the left, and a partly blocked hall/kitchen fireplace on the right shows evidence of a slight projection for a clom oven externally. A staircase dates to around the late 19th century. The roof has a four-bay structure, which is not accessible, with feet of principals boxed-in, displaying a partly halved, lapped, and pegged joint to one collar. The interior of the cottage has circa 19th-century ceiling beams to the front range and roughly chamfered ceiling beams to the rear, along with a 20th-century chimney-piece.