County Cottage

County Cottage is a cottage ornée built in 1803 by Jeffry Wyatville for the 2nd Marquess of Bath. It is located in Selwood Civil Parish, Somerset. The building features coursed rubble stone construction with a hipped thatched roof and a pair of diagonally set ashlar stacks. It has a cross plan with two of the arms being three-sided. The cottage is single storey with an attic and has two windows.

The windows are casements, and there is a Tudor-arched doorway beneath a thatched canopy supported by rustic posts, featuring a 20th-century planked door. To the right of the doorway, there are two cross windows with hoodmoulds, and a 2-light recessed chamfered mullioned casement along with a pointed lancet window on the first floor. The gables are adorned with wavy barge boards.

On the left side, there is a 20th-century steel casement window and a cross window with a hoodmould. The right side has a 1-light hollow-chamfered casement to the left, and a gabled projecting bay in the center that includes a cross window on the ground floor and a 2-light recessed chamfered mullioned casement with a hoodmould on the first floor, also featuring wavy barge boards. The rear of the cottage has a flat-roofed 20th-century extension and a 2-light casement window in a gabled dormer. The interior was not accessible during the survey in June 1985. The cottage is situated along the west drive to Longleat House, straddling the County boundary of Wiltshire and Somerset.