Pidgeon Cottage

Pidgeon Cottage is a house with a 16th-century base and 19th-century alterations. It features a coursed rubble volcanic trap base and brick upper storeys, topped with a fish-scale tiled roof that has a composite gable end and half hip. The cottage is reputedly built on the foundations of the dovecote from the now-demolished Acland mansion of Columbjohn. It has a square plan and includes a small rubble-stone outbuilding attached to the front on the left side, as well as a 20th-century brick lean-to extension. The building is two storeys high with an attic. The stone base rises to about 2 metres and has been converted into living quarters with 20th-century two-light windows inserted. Above this, the brick storey is laid in Flemish bond and is accessed by a flight of external stone stairs. It features 19th-century timber casement windows with transoms, each upper light set under a depressed stone arch, with two windows on the front and one on the right-hand side. There are no windows at the rear. The roof is tiled and hipped at the eaves level on brackets, changing pitch to create an attic storey with gabled ends. The gable walls are half-timbered with brick nogging, and there is a small attic window at each end. Three attached brick chimney shafts with stone moulded caps rise off an ashlar base below the ridge.