Shelve Cottage

Shelve Cottage is a cottage with origins in the mid-17th to late 17th century, subsequently rearranged in the 19th century. It is constructed of plastered local stone rubble, possibly with some cob, with stone rubble stacks topped with 19th and 20th century brick, and a thatched roof. The original plan was a two-room layout facing south. The right (west) room has a gable-end stack, and the left room has an axial stack. A 20th-century single-storey kitchen extension is situated on the left end and represents a rebuild of a former outbuilding. The right room is a 19th-century addition, and it appears that the original cottage once extended further to the left (east). Shelve Cottage is two storeys high with a single-storey kitchen extension. The front has a two-window arrangement featuring 20th-century casement windows without glazing bars. A main doorway is centrally positioned, at the right end of the wider 17th-century section, with secondary doorways at the right end and into the kitchen extension, all featuring 20th-century doors. The main roof is gable-ended, and the left gable-end is weather-boarded. Inside the main room, which is the original 17th-century section, there is a large fireplace with a plastered front and an oak frame. The crossbeam is composed of two sections: the longer front section is chamfered with scroll-nick stops at each end, hinting at a possible original axial partition and a small dairy or buttery at the rear. The roof in this room is two bays and supported by a clean side-pegged jointed cruck truss, with another similar truss partially obscured within the end wall.