Well Cottage

Well Cottage is a cottage, likely dating from the 17th century, although earlier fabric may be present. It was extended in the 19th century and again in the 20th century. The walls are built of rendered stone rubble and cob, and the roof is thatched with gable ends. A large axial stack of rubble, topped with a dripstone and tapered cap, serves as the chimney. The original layout of the cottage is obscured by 20th-century alterations, but it now comprises a single main room with a direct entrance at the left end, heated by the stack at the right end, with a staircase rising alongside it. A smaller inner room is located at the rear, with 19th and 20th-century extensions forming a continuous outshut. The cottage has two storeys and a three-window front; the windows include a 12-pane sash window at the left end, a 12-pane fixed light in the centre, and a 2-light casement with 8 panes per light at the right end. Corrugated asbestos roofs cover the ground-floor outshuts. On the west side, partly obscured by Elm Cottage, there are two sash windows, and above them, a 3-over-6 pane sash window to the right of a gabled, slated porch. Inside the main room, there is a chamfered ceiling beam and bressumer with run-out stops. The rest of the interior has been altered in the 20th century. While the roofspace is inaccessible, the feet of one truss above the main room indicate that the original roof structure remains intact.