Hansel Cottage And Adjoining Outbuilding To East And Front Garden Area Wall

House and adjoining outbuilding. Probably dating from the 16th or early 17th century, remodelled and extended in the 18th century. The main structure is rendered stone rubble with a slate roof with gabled ends. The lower right-hand end is stone rubble and cob with a lower corrugated iron roof with a hipped end. The late left-hand end has an asbestos tile roof. Rendered gable end stacks at either end of the main range with tapered tops and slate weathering.

The house probably originally had a three-room and through-passage plan. The unheated lower right-hand end is now used as an outbuilding and is in separate ownership. The hall is heated from an axial stack backing onto the former through passage, and the inner left-hand end room has a gable end stack. The original function of the lower end is uncertain, although it has a drain outlet hole in the lower end wall, though this may not be original. In the 18th century, probably early 18th century, the house was remodelled: the lower end was relegated to an outbuilding, the upper end was converted into a two-room plan house with its roof raised, and a kitchen wing with a gable end stack was built behind the hall. In the late 20th century an axial passage was formed through the rear of the former inner room and a doorway made in the left end wall to gain access to the outbuilding, which was converted to extend the accommodation of the house.

The exterior is two storeys. The main house at centre has a three-window south front with 20th-century three-light casements with glazing bars; the centre first floor window is blocked and there is a central doorway with a moulded canopy on shaped wooden brackets with large slates on top. Around the doorway are moulded plaster horseshoe shapes. At the lower right-hand end the roof line is much lower and a wide vehicular entrance has been inserted in the original cross-passage position with loft doors above. To the right is a late narrow doorway. The lower end wall has a drain outlet hole to the left of centre at ground level and a late doorway to its right.

Set back on the left is a two-storey, two-window range converted from an outbuilding. At the rear is a gable-ended wing to the left of centre with a projecting rendered stack on its gable end and a porch in the angle to the right with a slurried slate roof. Various 20th-century casements are present. The lower end to the left of the wing has a blocked through-passage rear doorway.

A front garden area wall, probably dating from the 19th century, is constructed of local slate rubble with slate-on-edge capping and dressed slate gate piers towards the right with slate caps.

Internally, the main room, the former hall, has a large fireplace at its lower end with dressed slate jambs and a timber lintel with mutilated thin chamfer; later ceiling joists are present. There is a 18th-century fielded two-panel door to the inner room. The rear wing has a large fireplace with a rough unchamfered timber lintel. The first floor has 19th-century plank doors. The roof over the main range has straight principal rafters lapped and crossed at the apex with lapped thin collars; all the joints are pegged. The roof over the lower end has a 20th-century softwood structure. In the back wall of the lower end (outbuilding) there is a wide but shallow recess with a light unchamfered timber lintel, rather like a shallow fireplace. There are no signs of ventilation slits in the walls of the lower end.