Cogswell

Cogswell is a house that dates from the 16th and 17th centuries, constructed of rubble stone and timber-frame with a stone slate roof, featuring end stacks and rear stacks. It has two storeys and an attic, with three hipped dormers, two of which have 18th-century leaded lights. The front has four windows, with the main part being timber-framed and having a rubble stone plinth and east end wall. The right end bay, likely added in the 17th century, is entirely made of rubble stone. The house features late 18th-century sashes, including 16-pane and two 12-pane sashes on the first floor of the main part, and paired 12-pane sashes on either side of the door in a rendered stone slated porch. The right bay has a 16-pane window above and paired 12-pane sashes below. The framing includes heavy wall-posts and one angle brace. There is an outside stack at the east end and a ground floor hollow-moulded mullion window.

The rear of the house has three gabled additions behind the main range, a 20th-century flat-roofed extension behind the right bay, and to the southwest, there is a one-room plan that was formerly a detached cottage, featuring a south stack and hipped eaves dormer on both the west and east sides. A link between the cottage and the west end of the house has a reset 16th or 17th-century studded plank door. The three gabled additions include early 18th-century features to the east with a cyma-moulded recessed 2-light mullion window on the first floor to the east and south, the south window altered to a 12-pane sash; a 17th-century addition in the center with hollow-moulded mullion windows, 2-light on each floor and a single light in the attic; and a late 18th-century addition to the right in red brick.

Inside, the hall has a rear wall with a stone chamfered Tudor-arched fireplace, while the east room features a Tudor-arched fireplace with a renewed timber lintel. The beams are chamfered and stopped, and there is a winding stair to the rear with some plank panelling. An early 18th-century bolection fireplace is located in the southeast rear wing, with another similar fireplace in the first-floor west room. The roof has a five-bay tie-beam and collar truss structure, with the west two bays possibly added later. An inventory from 1616 belonging to Thomas Cogswell mentions a hall, buttery, and kitchen with rooms above the hall and buttery. The property was owned by the Crook family in the 18th century.