Boreas Cottage

Boreas Cottage is a vernacular cottage dating from the late 18th century, or possibly earlier, with 19th-century alterations.

The building is constructed of stone rubble, formerly lime washed but now painted, with a 20th-century concrete tile pitched roof and two brick ridge stacks. It is one and a half storeys tall with an L-shaped plan, comprising a main range to the east and a lower range to the south. A one-storey kitchen extension was added at the south gable end in the late 20th century.

The three-bay street front features segmental-headed two-light casement windows on the ground floor beneath gabled dormers, which contain late 19th or early 20th-century single casement windows. The entrance, positioned off-centre to the right, has a ledged and braced door with decorative strap hinges and a wooden lintel above. The rear south elevation is lit by two segmental-headed two-light casement windows, with a half dormer containing a two-light casement window above the left-hand window. A lean-to entrance porch occupies the corner where the two wings meet, fitted with a ledged and braced door and a fixed light to its left. The lower west elevation to the rear has a three-light casement window at ground floor level and a fixed light window with wooden lintel at attic level on the upper right-hand side.

Inside, the ground floor living room in the east wing contains a large stone fireplace, partly repaired in brick at its west end, and a smaller stone rubble fireplace with wooden lintel in the south-east corner. The room has a flagstone floor, lathen plaster ceiling with chamfered beams, and window seats with wooden lintels. Elm floorboards are present upstairs. The roof structure comprises a common rafter design with at least one lapped and pegged truss; one tier of purlins of 18th-century date survives, whilst the remaining roof timbers are probably of late 19th-century date.

By 1887, according to the Ordnance Survey of that date, Boreas Cottage appears to have formed a single building together with the adjacent properties at Nos. 4 and 6 Eastrop.

The cottage is designated for the quality of its design and materials, which reflect local vernacular traditions, and for the good quality of its surviving features and clear evidence of its original plan form.