Lapwing Cottage Including Front Garden Wall To South

Lapwing Cottage, including the front garden wall to the south, is a house dating from the early 17th century, with 20th-century alterations. It is constructed of limestone rubble, painted at the front, and has an asbestos tile roof with red clay ridge tiles. The rear of the house features three stone rubble lateral stacks; one in the hall with set-offs and slate weathering, another to the rear of the lower end and a front lateral stack to the left with slate weathering and a tapered top. The original plan comprised three rooms and a through passage, with the lower end to the right heated by a rear stack and the hall having an oven. It is believed that the house was formerly divided into two cottages, but these internal partitions were removed during a recent restoration.

The south front is asymmetrical with five windows, all of which are circa early 20th-century, large, two-light casements with glazing bars and tile sills, reaching the eaves. A plank door is situated in the passage front doorway to the right of centre. A large stone rubble stack rises from the front wall at the left end. The rear elevation is largely unaltered, presenting a blind stone rubble wall with two large lateral stacks, the hall stack projecting slightly with set-offs.

The front garden is enclosed by a probable early 19th-century wall constructed mainly of slate and limestone rubble with a rough stone capping. This low wall, approximately one metre high, returns inwards at a gateway directly in front of the house doorway.

Inside, the hall fireplace has a timber lintel with cyma-and-fillet moulding and ogee stops, supported by moulded wooden corbels, and features a clay-lined oven. The hall also contains chamfered cross-beams with straight-cut stops, a plank-and-muntin screen, and a further, rough, unchamfered cross-beam in the lower end room. A 20th-century fireplace blocks the original fireplace in the lower end room. The roof structure is recorded as having been replaced.