Wardour Cottage

Wardour Cottage is a semi-detached house, with a core dating back to the 17th century, largely recased and extended in the late 18th century. The construction is of dressed limestone with a tiled roof, featuring a half-hip to the right, and brick stacks. The house has a gable end facing the road. Originally a small two-cell 17th-century house, it was extended to the left in the 18th century. The main façade is two storeys and an attic, with three bays. A modern gabled porch provides access to a half-glazed door, with two two-light casement windows to the left and a single two-light casement in a blocked doorway to the right. The first floor contains three two-light casement windows. The right return to the road exhibits a 19th-century square bay with casements on the ground floor and a two-light casement on the first floor, with a single-light casement in the attic space. Stone indicates that the half gable is a 19th-century alteration. At the rear, there is a lean-to garage extension, and a 20th-century lean-to extension with a pantiled roof and steel casements; a brick stack situated in a lateral position on the rear wall are not considered to be of special interest.

The interior of the ground floor features two chamfered beams and a bressummer, all with lambs tongue stops. The first floor has fairly slight chamfered beams with run-out stops. The roof is a principal rafter structure with two trusses, halved and pegged at the apex, trenched purlins and no ridge piece. Evidence of piecing in for extensions is visible at both ends, as is the 19th-century structure of the half-hip.