The Cottage

The Cottage is a detached house comprising a 17th-century core, with extensions dating to around 1700 and a mid-19th century service wing. The original timber-framed section has rendered wattle and daub panels, while the 18th-century addition is constructed of dressed limestone. The 19th-century wing incorporates brick and rubble stone. The roof is thatched, with a coped verge to the north and a hip to the south. The house is arranged in an L-shape, with a two-bay timber-framed build, a stone fire bay, a one-bay extension from around 1700 to the north, and a 19th-century wing to the southwest. The west front, which is two storeys high and features two windows, has a four-panelled door set within a wooden porch with crude Ionic columns. To the right of the door is a two-light casement, and above it, a three-light wood mullioned casement to the timber-framed section. The stone range to the left has a three-light mullioned casement on both floors, with a string course. A blocked chamfered light is found in the attic of the left return. The rear elevation exhibits a three-light mullioned casement to the ground and first floors of the stone build, alongside two-light and three-light ground floor casements in the timber-framed section. Above, there's a three-light casement to the left, and an oriel with leaded casements, supported by carved wooden brackets, to the right. The 19th-century service wing has a planked door and two segmental-headed two-light casements on the ground floor, with two two-light casements above. An external rendered stack is visible at the gable end. The rear of the wing features a planked door and a ground floor oriel with casements. Inside the two-bay 17th-century range are chamfered beams with run-out stops. There is an open fireplace with a chamfered lintel on chamfered stone jambs with bar stops, and a door to the ground floor with two moulded panels. A former external wall, still showing a blocked three-light wood mullioned window, is exposed between the 17th-century range and the service wing. The c. 1700 parlour features a stone fireplace surround with chamfered jambs and lintel, window shutters with fielded panels, and a door with two fielded panels. The first floor has a mix of chamfered beams and planked doors, alongside tongue and groove partitions. The roof over the 17th-century range is a plain collar and tie-beam construction. It represents a little altered example of a house of several phases.