Church Cottage Church House

A pair of attached cottages, likely originally a single house, probably dating from the late 16th or early 17th century, with later alterations including an 18th-century rear wing and a 20th-century addition at the left end. The cottages are built of roughcast stone rubble with an asbestos slate roof and gabled ends. A gable end stack is located at the original left end, and there is a truncated axial stack to the right of centre.

The original layout is uncertain, potentially having been a 2-room plan with a central through passage, with a narrow right-hand room possibly added in the 18th century. Alternatively, the right-hand room might have been the third room of a 3-room plan. The left and right-hand rooms are heated, but neither contains an oven. The left-hand room features a newel staircase built into the gable end wall, located to the left of the fireplace. A stack may have originally existed between the centre and right-hand rooms, but a staircase now rises against this partition wall, likely inserted when the house was divided. Church Cottage occupies the narrow right-hand room and the unheated rear wing, while Church House occupies the central and left-hand rooms, with a small kitchen in a side addition to the rear wing. A one-room plan 20th-century addition is present at the left-hand end, open on the ground floor and supported by corner piers. The rear wing has a half-hipped slate roof.

Internally, a plank and muntin screen with chamfered muntins and hollow step stops separates the left-hand room from the passage. A partition has been removed from the right-hand side, except for a short section at the front. The passage features deeply chamfered joists with hollow step stops. The left-hand room has a rough cross beam and some chamfered joists with hollow step stops. The left-hand gable end fireplace has an unchamfered timber lintel and a newel staircase to its left. The right-hand room (Church Cottage) has a small fireplace with a roughly chamfered timber lintel. The roof has straight principal rafters with mortices for threaded purlins, lap-jointed apexes, and appears to consist of reused principals and replaced common rafters. The interior of Church House was the only part inspected.