Thatched Cottage

This is a thatched cottage, likely dating to the late 17th or early 18th century, with extensions added in the early to mid-18th century. It was originally a pair of cottages, situated southwest of numbers 1, 2, and 3 Church Gate, and shown on Ordnance Survey maps as a dovecot. The exterior is rendered, possibly over stone and cob, with some painted coursed stone rubble to the right. There are lean-to additions with Welsh-slate, asbestos-slate, and corrugated-iron roofs, and stone stacks with weatherings.

The cottage has an overall three-room plan. The original late 17th-century house comprised two rooms: a hall to the right (east) with an end stack (now axial) and an entrance at the lower end to the left, and a smaller, unheated room to the left which contains the staircase at the rear. An early 18th-century room was added to the right, featuring an external rear stack and a staircase in the corner. The building is two storeys, except for the left-hand and rear lean-to additions, which are single-storey.

The front facade is asymmetrical, with a three-window arrangement. The early 18th-century windows have square-leaded lights; the centre light of each first-floor window to the right, and the ground-floor window to the right, are cast-iron opening casements with 18th-century catches. A 19th-century boarded door sits between the first and second windows from the left, alongside a slate porch with a slate bench. A further 19th-century boarded door is set back to the right. A first-floor 2-light wooden casement and a ground-floor 1-light wooden casement are found in the left-hand lean-to addition.

The hall's interior remains largely unaltered, featuring a late 17th or early 18th-century plastered ceiling, an open fireplace with a likely late 18th-century surround with a beaded edge, and a bread oven with a cast-iron door. There are early 18th-century cupboards to either side of the fireplace, with raised and fielded panels and H-hinges, as well as an L-shaped built-in bench along the front and side walls. A curved jamb is present on the hall window's left-hand side. A 17th-century oak winder staircase is located at the rear of the left-hand room. The roof is of 17th and 18th-century origin, with three bays to the left of the stack and two bays to the right, including open trusses. An old cobbled pathway leads to the front door.