Church Cottage

Church Cottage is a former school that was converted into a cottage in 1832, designed by James Thomson for Joseph Neeld of Grittleton. The building is constructed from squared rubble stone and features a low-pitched slate roof with half-hipped ends and gables at both the north and south. It has a ridge stack and is one and a half storeys tall, with unmoulded flush mullion windows.

The west end, facing the road, includes a small two-light window above a large canted bay window with a lead roof, which has a configuration of two, three, and two lights. The south gable displays a roundel date plaque above a gabled stone porch with a depressed-arched entry, and to the right of the porch is a blocked door. The north side of the cottage features a two-light window in the gable and an altered single-storey projection below, which is a 20th-century addition.

Church Cottage is depicted as a school in James Thomson's book "School Houses" from 1842, along with its plan, and is referred to as a 'single cottage' in his unpublished work "History of the Church and Village of Alderton" from 1845. By that time, the larger schoolroom, now known as The Old School House, had already been constructed.