Priest Cottage

Priest Cottage is a house that dates from the 17th century or earlier, with significant alterations made in the 19th century and further restoration and extension in the late 20th century. It is constructed from rubble stone and cob, rendered, and features a slate roof with a clay ridge and a tall lateral stack on the front.

The building has a single room depth and a layout that includes three rooms and a through-passage. The lower end is to the left of the passage and was originally heated by a gable axial stack, which has since been removed by a previous owner. There is a plank and muntin partition to the right of the through-passage that leads into a central hall with the lateral stack at the front. An unheated inner room has a false 20th-century fireplace. The through-passage was widened in the 20th century when a staircase was added. The first floor has been rearranged in the 19th and 20th centuries, and the roof was completely replaced in the 19th century.

The exterior is two storeys high and has an asymmetrical window arrangement with two and three-light 20th-century casements, each featuring a single horizontal glazing bar. To the left, there is a door opening to the through-passage with a 20th-century glazed door. At the rear, there is a large two-storey addition with a flat roof and a small mock cupola.

Inside, the lower room is featureless. The hall has a ceiling cross beam that is deeply chamfered on the inner face with a cyma stop. There is a plank and muntin screen to the through-passage, with a semi-circular head doorway that has chamfered edges and an old plank door. The hall fireplace features a roughly smoothed wooden bressumer. A doorway with a round-headed frame leads to the inner room, which is also featureless except for a roughly hewn ceiling cross beam and an inserted 20th-century secondary staircase. The first floor has a five-bayed roof from the 19th century, with no evidence of earlier work.