Brandirons Corner Cottage

Brandirons Corner Cottage is a cottage dating from the 18th century, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of plastered cob on a rubble stone plinth, featuring a rubble stone stack with late 20th-century brick above roof level. The original thatched roof has been replaced with slate.

The cottage has a two-storey, two-room plan, with a heated room located at the south-west end. There is a 19th-century lean-to at the north-east end and a 20th-century conservatory on the principal elevation. The exterior includes a central 19th-century plank door flanked by six-light casement windows on both sides and on the first floor. The rear wall, made of exposed cob, has no openings. A single-storey lean-to is present at the north-west end, and the conservatory at the front links the cottage to a mid-19th-century house, which is not of interest.

Inside, the entrance leads directly into the main heated room, which features a fireplace with a bread oven and a 19th-century overmantel. To the right of the entrance is a room that includes a renewed timber winder staircase. The roof has renewed rafters but retains its principal trusses and purlins. The internal doors are 19th-century plank doors.

Brandirons Corner Cottage is listed at Grade II because it is a good example of a vernacular cottage made of cob with a rubble stone plinth and stack, it clearly shows the original two-room plan, and it retains the principal trusses and purlins of its historic roof structure.