Lemons Cottage

Lemons Cottage is a tenement farmhouse, dating back to the 16th century, with earlier fabric likely hidden within. The upper end was partly rebuilt in the 20th century. The building is constructed of painted stone rubble and cob, and has a half-hipped thatched roof. A stone rubble axial stack with a drip and tapered cap is present, along with a brick shaft to a rubble stack at the right end. Originally, the house comprised three rooms and a through-passage, and may have started as an open hall with a stack inserted backing onto the passage. Around 1980, the parlour or higher end collapsed, but the hall/inner room partition and most of the fabric remained intact, with the collapsed section rebuilt in the same style. The cottage is two stories high, with a two-window front. Windows are mostly 2-light casements with 3 panes per light, with an eyebrow dormer above the left window. The ground floor has three 2-light casements with 3 panes per light, and a replaced 20th-century window at the left end. A short buttress is situated to the left of the through-passage doorway, which leads to a plank door. The lower end is slightly recessed, with a corrugated iron lean-to room attached to the right end. A small projecting stair turret is located at the rear of the hall.

Inside, plank and muntin screens remain between the hall/inner room and the through-passage/lower end. The hall screen is 7 planks wide and raised on a low rubble plinth, with chamfered muntins that have scroll stops at bench level. The top rail is also chamfered. A chamfered surround is present around the doorway leading to the inner room on the right end. The screen between the through-passage and lower end is 5 planks wide and also features scroll stops near the base of the chamfered muntins, but the top rail is unmoulded. A chamfered surround is around the straight-headed doorway. The ceiling beam in the lower end has a wide step-stopped chamfer. While roof access is not available, sections of two heavy trusses are visible, suggesting a pair of raised cruck blades and a cranked collar, which may indicate the former existence of an open hall house.