Mount Lipson Cottage

Mount Lipson Cottage is a detached house built between 1834 and 1835. It features incised stucco on what is likely rubble, with dry slate roofs that have projecting eaves and verges, adorned with later 19th-century red clay crested ridge tiles and shaped finials. The roof is hipped over the central cross wing and polygonal at the front. There are two stuccoed stacks with yellow clay louvred pots over the cross walls.

The design is that of an Italianate villa with a cruciform plan, featuring a stair hall at the rear of the cross wing and an outshut to the rear left. An outshut on the right side is indicated on an 1853 Ordnance Survey map. The cottage is two storeys high with a symmetrical north front that has a 1:3:1 window arrangement. The projecting centre is canted and taller, showcasing round-arched first-floor windows. The wings on either side have only ground-floor windows, which are mid-19th-century tall hornless sashes with glazing bars, while the round-arched windows are topped with spoked fanlight heads.

The right-hand return features a central first-floor sash that rises into the gable, and a doorway on the right with a moulded hood supported by consoles and a panelled door. There is a Guardian fire insurance plaque above the doorway. The rear of the cottage has older sash windows.

Although the interior was not inspected, a previous listing description notes that many original features remain, including moulded plaster ceiling cornices, panelled doors, and possibly the original staircase.

Historically, Mount Lipson Cottage was constructed as a dower house for the now-demolished Mount Lipson, which was the residence of the Govett family. An 1847 drawing of the house shows it as it is today, although the centre windows of the canted bay were blind, and the first-floor windows appeared to have Gothic tracery.