Symes Cottage With Attached Outbuildings To Rear

Symes Cottage is a house that was formerly a farmhouse, built in the 17th century and later modified. It features rubble sandstone construction with a rendered finish and a thatched roof, which is half-hipped on the right side and gabled on the left. The roof has external stone stacks at both ends and an internal lateral front stack with a brick shaft. The layout may have originally been a three-room cross passage plan, but it now has one chamber removed. The building is two storeys high and faces the road, displaying scattered fenestration with three ground-floor windows consisting of 20th-century timber casements in two and three-light configurations. There are also two first-storey windows on the right side, one of which breaks the eaves line. Two stone buttresses are present above a cobbled pavement, and there is a 20th-century lean-to at the left end of the house.

Inside, there is evidence of a through passage with post and plaster screens on either side, although the opposing doorways have been blocked. Only two ground-floor rooms remain: the right room has an end fireplace with a massive timber lintel that is chamfered, and one chamfered beam. The left room also has a chamfered beam with a step stop. The roof consists of four bays with collar trusses that are morticed and side-pegged at the apex, resting on a wall plate, with collars that are side-pegged and trenched purlins. Behind the house is a barn extension that has a similar roof construction with three trusses featuring double collars. There is also another barn aligned parallel to the house, which has been converted into a separate dwelling. All structures are made of sandstone, with some cob patching, and retain thatched roofing throughout.