Henspark Cottage

Henspark Cottage is a Grade II listed cottage located in East Anstey, likely dating from the mid to late 17th century, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building features painted rendered stone rubble and some cob, topped with a bitumenized slate roof that has gable ends. There are axial stone rubble and rendered stone rubble stacks at the right end.

The plan of the cottage has been obscured by 20th-century alterations, making it unclear if it was originally a single dwelling. It consists of four rooms in a line, with direct entry into the unheated left end room and into the third room from the left, which serves as a wide entrance hall containing a 20th-century staircase. The presence of straight joints between the two left end rooms suggests that the axial stack was originally located at the left gable end. The roof structure has been replaced on the left side of the straight joint, while a late 17th-century roof structure remains over the right-hand section. It appears that the original core of the cottage is the second room from the left, which has chamfered beams and bressumers. The right-hand section seems to have been rebuilt in the late 17th century as a separate cottage, with the left-hand cottage extended around the same time.

The exterior of Henspark Cottage is two storeys high with a four-window range, primarily featuring late 19th-century fenestration with 3-light casements, having 2 and 3 panes per light. There is a 20th-century door to the left and an early 20th-century door to the right.

Inside, the left end room has a roughly chamfered axial beam, while the principal room features a hollow step stop chamfered cross ceiling beam and bressumers. The fireplace in this room has a chamfered lintel and a brick-lined bread oven. The room at the right end contains a single chamfered cross ceiling beam with hollow step stops. Two 17th-century trusses with straight principals and pegged halved collars are preserved over the right-hand section, with the remainder of the roof structure dating from the 20th century.