Orchard Cottage

Orchard Cottage is a small house dating to around the late 17th century, or possibly a later 17th-century remodelling of an earlier building, with 19th-century alterations. It is constructed of roughcast stone rubble with a scantle slate roof, which is grouted and has a cement slurry coating, with gabled ends and clay ridge tiles, and a half-hipped front. There is an integral stack at the right-hand end with a short brick shaft.

The house has a simple two-room and through-passage plan, with the larger room on the right having a gable-end stack, and the smaller, unheated room on the left. A projecting two-storey bay on the right-hand side, with a catslide roof over an integral stair turret, and a doorway to the left, may represent an 18th- or 19th-century outbuilding attached to the right end where the ground level is lower. The front facade is asymmetrical.

On the ground floor to the left is a 19th-century plank door with a slate lean-to canopy supported by wooden braces. There are also 19th-century 2- and 3-light casement windows with glazing bars, and some with slate sills, with a 2-light horizontally sliding sash window with glazing bars on the ground floor to the left. The rear elevation is largely blind, except for a first-floor 19th-century 2-light casement that breaks the eaves to the left of centre, a window below, and a passage doorway to the right of centre. At the right-hand, north end is a circa late 18th- or 19th-century outbuilding with a lower corrugated iron roof.

Inside, the right-hand room features a cross-beam and half beam in the end wall, with a thin chamfer and run-out stops, and a blocked fireplace. The through passage is lined with matchboarded stone, with a newel staircase and a 19th-century plank door at the bottom. The first floor and roof space were not inspected, but the feet of the principal rafters are reportedly exposed.