Caroline Cottage And Churchways Cottage

Caroline Cottage and Churchways Cottage are a house, likely built in the late 17th to early 18th century, with possible earlier origins and a 19th-century schoolroom extension. The building is constructed of roughcast stone rubble with thatched roof ends, and a lower-pitched slate roof extension to the right. The original house has rendered gable end stacks, while a large lateral stack is on the front of the right-hand extension, all featuring weathering and louvred pots.

The original layout consisted of a long range divided into two cottages. Caroline Cottage occupies the left-end room, with the remainder forming Churchways Cottage. The original house likely comprised two rooms with end stacks, and a central cross or through passage into which a straight staircase has been inserted. A later two-room section on the right is thought to be the 19th-century schoolroom, potentially adapted from an earlier structure. This section has a lateral stack heating the ground floor room and a large first-floor room accessed by a staircase in the small end bay.

The front elevation is asymmetrical, with a 3:2 window arrangement. It features late 19th-century 2-light casements with glazing bars, some small 20th-century casements, and two doorways to the left and one to the right, each with 19th-century panelled doors. A central door is partly glazed. All doorways have slate canopies supported by shaped brackets. The schoolroom extension has a 20th-century glazed first-floor doorway and smaller casements below. The rear elevation has a 2:3 window range of 20th-century 2 and 3-light casements with glazing bars, along with a 20th-century conservatory and glazed doors.

The interior of Churchways Cottage, surveyed in 1988, shows late 19th-century refurbishment including boarded ceilings, panelled doors, and late 19th-century fireplaces with cast iron grates, one ground-floor example featuring Art Nouveau glazed tiles. Three fireplaces are on the first floor. A straight staircase has been inserted into the original passage. The roof space of the original range was not accessible at the time of the survey.