Pilton Cottage

Pilton Cottage is a house dating from the late 18th century, with alterations and additions made in the early 20th century. The external walls are roughcast and the roof is covered in natural slate with glazed ridge tiles, featuring four rear lateral stacks with rendered shafts. It is a single-depth range, originally backing onto Dark Lane, and has short projecting wings at each end, along with a lower-roofed service block to the far right.

The house has two storeys and an asymmetrical 1:6:1 window arrangement. The front wings are hipped, with the right-hand wing projecting slightly and supported by three concrete columns. A gabled porch sits in the centre of the main range, featuring a segmental-headed outer doorway and small-pane casements in its returns. The inner door is six-panelled, with the upper panels glazed. A French window with margin panes is located to the left of the centre, and a small-pane 20th-century door is on the right. A two-tier canted bay window is positioned to the left of the porch. The windows are largely sash windows with 16 panes, with one 12-pane sash, and a large tripartite sash window in the left-end wing.

The interior remains largely original, and includes joinery and at least one Georgian style fireplace. Historical records indicate that in 1722 the site may have contained three separate dwellings. By 1764, these had combined into a single house, known as Incledon’s Tenement.