Deutzia Cottage

Deutzia Cottage is a detached house, originally built as two cottages but possibly as a single dwelling. It dates to 1676, though it was extended and the windows were replaced in the late 18th or early 19th century. The construction is of small-scale coursed rubble with a slate roof. The house has a long plan, one room deep, extended with a swept-down roof at the left-hand end. The original doorway opens onto a cross passage, now blocked at the rear. It is thought the property may have begun as a cross-passage plan with a heated room at either end, and an additional unheated room to the left of the entry. The exterior is two storeys high, featuring two widely spaced windows with three-light recessed hollow-chamfer stone mullion casements, including drip courses at ground floor. A small opening is blocked in the centre of the eaves. A wooden plank door, set in chamfered stone jambs with a peaked stone lintel bearing the carved date 1676, is positioned off-centre to the right. There are plain gables, each with a brick stack. Rear windows are small-pane wood casements, including two and three-light windows at the eaves, a two-light window above a former door opening, and a three-light window. The return wall, in the swept-down section, has a wide plank door under a vestigial timber hood and further two and three-light windows to the rear wall. The interior was not inspected.