Antelope Cottage

Antelope Cottage is a house, originally built as two cottages in the mid to late 17th century, and later used as an inn. It was refurbished as an inn in the late 18th or early 19th century and modernised around 1970. The house is constructed of plastered local stone rubble, possibly some cob, with stone rubble stacks topped with 20th-century brick and a thatched roof to the main body, with slate and cedarwood shingles to extensions.

The house is built facing south, down a hillslope. Originally, it comprised two mirror-image cottages, each featuring a small, unheated inner room and a larger, heated outer room, each with a gable-end stack. The two rooms at the east end have now been combined into one. A secondary outbuilding, originally on the left side, has been incorporated into the main living space. A circa 1970 sun room extension now fronts the left end of the main house. The house is two storeys high.

Originally, the front would have been symmetrical, with two-light windows and three-light windows, all now 20th-century casements with imitation glazing bars. The ground floor window on the left is a 20th-century bay window, and the ground floor on the right has a gabled sun room projecting forward. Each former cottage originally had a central doorway, but the left one has been converted into a window. The right doorway now has a 20th-century door behind a contemporary gabled porch. The main roof is gable-ended.

Inside, the right-hand end room features a chamfered spine beam with run-out stops. The fireplace here has one limestone ashlar jamb and one oak post, with a chamfered oak lintel. The fireplace at the left end is plastered and has a plain oak lintel. Inspection of the roof was not carried out, but the bases of straight principals visible on the first floor suggest original or late 18th- to early 19th-century A-frame trusses.