Littlecott Cottage

Littlecott Cottage is a cottage, originally a coach house and stables. It was probably built in the 17th century and rebuilt in the 19th century, undergoing significant modernisation and rearrangement around 1960. The building is constructed of plastered stone rubble, possibly with some cob, has a brick stack, and a thatched roof.

The west-facing main block comprises a store at the left (northern) end, which was formerly the coach house, and a large room to the right, with a lobby in between. The large room features an end stack. There is an outshot to the rear of the store and a small, single-storey 20th-century kitchen on the right end. The main block is two storeys high.

The front has an irregular three-window arrangement of probably 20th-century casements with rectangular panes of leaded glass. The first-floor windows have thatch eaves over. The left end has a large, elliptical arch, the remains of the original coach house, now filled with a circa 1960 glazed door and a curving bay window, both with glazing bars. To the right of the arch is the main front doorway, containing a plank door with a leaded glass window. The left end bay projects slightly forward from the main front. The roof is gable-ended to the right and half-hipped to the left. The 20th-century kitchen on the right end has its own plank front door with a small leaded glass window alongside. A first-floor leaded glass casement is present on the left end wall, and the rear roof extends over the outshot.

The interior is largely the result of the 20th-century modernisation. However, the main room retains a 17th-century soffit-chamfered and scroll-stopped cross beam with run-out stops. The fireplace is a probably a 20th-century rebuild of thin bricks arranged in patterned formations, featuring a high, plain timber lintel and a late 19th-century cast iron oven door. The roof structure was rebuilt in the 20th century.

Despite the extensive 20th-century modernisation, Littlecott Cottage retains much character and groups well with other nearby listed buildings, notably Littlecott and Peeks.