Crossbow Cottage

Crossbow Cottage is a cottage, likely dating from the late 17th or 18th century, with a 20th-century extension. It is constructed of slate rubble, partially rendered, and has a thatched roof with gabled ends. The roof on the right-hand side is a raised hipped roof. There is a left-hand end stack with a shaft made of stone rubble and slate weathering, and a rendered axial stack. Originally, the house appears to have comprised a two-room plan with central entrance and gable-end stacks. A later addition was built on the right-hand side and raised in the 20th century to create a full two stories. The left-hand end of the cottage is one story and an attic, with eyebrowed eaves in the thatch above a small, late 19th-century attic casement. On the ground floor of the left-hand end are two small 20th-century four-pane sashes, and a central doorway with 20th-century glazed double doors and a 20th-century glazed porch. The right-hand side has a raised roof, a 20th-century ground floor casement, and an aerial above. Two 20th-century casements are visible in the left-hand gable end, the ground floor featuring a slate hoodmould. The rear features a 20th-century casement to the left and a large, battered slate rubble buttress on the right. The interior was inaccessible when surveyed in 1988.