Moneyglass Cottage

Moneyglass Cottage is a former small farmhouse that originally consisted of two cottages. It has origins dating back to the early to mid-16th century but underwent significant rebuilding and rearrangement in the late 17th century and again in the mid to late 19th century, with an extension and modernization around 1970. The structure is made of plastered cob and local stone rubble, with some brick patching at the rear. It features one cob stack and one stone rubble and brick stack, topped with a thatched roof that has been replaced with slate on the ridge and rear pitch.

The cottage has a three-room plan facing south. The left room is a 20th-century extension. The center room contains an axial stack that backs onto the left room, while the right room has a cob gable-end stack. The original layout resembles that of two one-room plan cottages, likely from the late 17th century. Evidence of smoke-blackening in the roof suggests that the house began as an open hall house farmhouse heated by an open hearth fire, indicating its 16th-century origins. The cottage is now two storeys high.

The exterior features a regular but not symmetrical five-window front with 20th-century casements, some of which are timber while most are uPVC. Both front doorways have 20th-century doors behind contemporary gabled porches, and the roof is gable-ended.

Inside, the left room is entirely from the 20th century. The other two rooms have crossbeams, with the center room's beam being roughly finished and the other clad with plaster. The right room boasts a late 17th-century brick fireplace with a chamfered oak lintel, which includes an oven located beneath the old winder stair that rises alongside. The center room's fireplace is made of 19th-century brick and is believed to be a rebuild, with the chamfered oak lintel reused from the earlier fireplace. The roof over the center room lacks trusses and consists of a series of common rafter couples, which, along with the underside of the front thatch, are lightly smoke-blackened from the original open hearth fire. The right end of the roof is supported by a 19th-century A-frame truss.