Forsythia Cottage

Forsythia Cottage is a cottage dating from around 1800, with later extensions from the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of plastered cob and features a thatched roof with half-hipped and gabled ends, while the outshuts have clay pantile roofs. The cottage has an integral stone gable-end stack with a later red brick shaft.

The layout consists of a two-room plan, with the larger room on the right (east) containing a gable-end fireplace, and the smaller left-hand room being unheated. The original staircase between the two rooms has been removed and replaced with a straight staircase located in the rear left-hand corner. In the late 19th century, an outshut was added to the right end of the cottage, and another outshut was constructed at the rear in the 20th century.

The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical two-window south front. The windows are late 19th or 20th century timber casements with glazing bars. There is a central doorway with a 20th-century rendered porch featuring a lean-to roof. The single-storey outshut on the right end has a two-light casement and a clay pantile lean-to roof, while the outshut across the rear also has a lean-to clay pantile roof.

Inside, there is a stone rubble fireplace with a cambered chamfered timber bressumer, thin unchamfered crossbeams, and exposed joists. A plank door leads to the re-sited straight stairs. The east chamber has a small fireplace with a roughly chamfered timber lintel, and there is a central partition between the two chambers with a plank door. The roof is a three-bay structure, with two trusses that have principals set on the wall-plates, crossed and pegged at the apexes, along with pole rafters, purlins, battens, and intact thatching ties.