Meetford Cottage

Meetford Cottage is a house that was formerly a gamekeeper's cottage, likely built in the 18th century and enlarged in the 19th century. It features plastered cob on rubble footings, with some 19th-century brickwork. The cottage has a cob stack topped with 19th-century brick and is designed as a gable-ended, two-room house with a central axial stack and a rear outshut. It faces south-west and is two storeys high. The front has an irregular arrangement of three windows, with the eaves stepping down twice from left to right. The door is located left of centre and has a replacement from 1984, accompanied by a gabled porch. The windows are casements of various sizes and dates, with the oldest being a three-light timber frame window on the first floor to the right, featuring slender flat-faced mullions and small rectangular leaded panes with vertical iron bars. There is a similar two-light window at the right end (south-east) and a larger, possibly later window on the south-east side of the outshot. Inside, the cottage has plain carpentry details and evidence of a demolished gun-room in the right room. Originally, the house was a single-room cottage (the right room) before being extended to the left and having the outshut added in the 19th century.