Littlecott

This is a house, likely dating to around 1850. It is constructed of plastered stone rubble or brick, with brick stacks and plastered chimney shafts, and has a thatched roof with shingles and felt to the rear outbuildings. The house is L-shaped, with the main block facing south and incorporating a three-room plan. A cross passage is located to the left (west) of the centre, separating the main rooms. The easternmost room serves as the kitchen, and a single-room rear block projects at right angles, containing the staircase. The kitchen has an end stack, and both principal rooms have rear lateral stacks. Contemporary outbuildings are situated to the rear.

The main house is two storeys high and displays features of the "Cottage Ornée" style. The front facade has a symmetrical four-window arrangement characteristic of around 1850. The front door is likely a 20th-century replacement, but the porch is original, made of light wrought ironwork in simple geometric patterns and capped with a tented roof. It is flanked by French windows with margin panes, where the top glazing bars intersect in a Gothic style, each with a flat-roofed porch similar to the main doorway. All first-floor windows are two-light casements with glazing bars and margin panes, with a further ground-floor window to the right. The left half of the front slightly projects from the right. Deep eaves are supported by small, shaped brackets and pronounced eyebrows overhang the first-floor windows. The roof is gable-ended to the right and half-hipped to the left. The left end features a French window with porch and a first-floor casement, both matching those on the front.

The rear of the rear block has a ground-floor window with plain mullions, which historically appeared to be an unglazed dairy or larder window. Other rear windows, including those of the outbuildings, are casements or fixed-pane windows with leaded panes mirroring the front casements. The outbuildings do not extend to the western end, and a small gazebo occupies the corner with its doorway angled across the corner and walls of trellis-work. A 20th-century flat-roofed, glass-walled porch, linking Littlecott to Littlecott Cottage, is situated on the eastern end of the main block.

The interior retains significant original joinery detail, including marble fireplaces in the principal rooms, and a pointed arch doorway from the central room to the kitchen. Littlecott is a well-preserved example of its period, notable for its attractive fenestration. Its layout suggests a possible rebuild on the site of an earlier house.