Corner Cottage And Wellsteps

Corner Cottage and Wellsteps are two cottages dating from the late 17th century to early 18th century, with some 19th-century service additions. Both were modernised around 1980. They are constructed of white-washed local stone rubble, possibly with some cob, and feature stone rubble stacks topped with 20th-century brick. The thatched roof has slate on the rear outshots.

The cottages are built down a hillslope, facing north, with Corner Cottage on the right (west) and Wellsteps on the left. Originally, each cottage had a two-room plan with a through passage between them. Each cottage had a larger room on the outside with a gable-end stack and a small unheated inner room. The passage partition has been removed in both cottages to enlarge the heated room. Corner Cottage has a single-storey, two-room plan extension at the rear of the left end, while Wellsteps features secondary service outshots to the rear. Both cottages are two storeys high.

On the exterior, each cottage has two ground floor windows and one first floor window, mostly 20th-century casements with glazing bars. Each has a central front doorway with a 20th-century door under a monopitch hood with a shaped valance. The roofs are gable-ended.

Inside Corner Cottage, there is no exposed carpentry detail, but the fireplace is made of sandstone ashlar with a chamfered oak lintel and contains a 19th-century oven, which was lined with new stone around 1980. Wellsteps has a similar fireplace and features a chamfered axial beam across the heated room and the site of the former passage. The roofs were not inspected.