Buckstone Cottage

Buckstone Cottage is a house dating from the 18th century and around 1820. It features partly plastered cob on rubble footings and partly plastered rubble, with rubble stacks topped by 19th-century brick chimney shafts. The roofs are slate and thatched. The building consists of two parallel ranges, with the front range from circa 1820 facing south-west, while the 18th-century cottage now serves as a rear service block.

The two-room front range has end stacks and a central staircase plan, standing two storeys tall. It has a symmetrical three-window front with a central 20th-century door, original panelled reveals, and a flat-roofed porch supported by Tuscan columns, though the sides of the porch are now filled in. Flanking the door are 16-pane sash windows, and there is a central 12-pane sash window on the first floor. The deep eaves and slate roof are hipped at each end, flanked by brick chimney shafts.

The rear of the cottage features a four-window front with irregularly arranged casements, including three possibly 18th-century flat-faced mullion casements with leaded glass. The outer ground floor windows are three-light, with a first-floor window located above the door. A similar first-floor window on the right contains original green-tinged leaded glass. The thatched roof is also hipped at both ends.

Inside, the cottage boasts good features, including plasterwork and joinery from around 1820, a geometric staircase with stick balusters and a mahogany handrail, and a cupola that lights the stairwell, adorned with a delicate moulded plaster frieze. It is said that Buckstone was the Dower House of the Ferguson-Davies family from Creedy Park in Sandford.