Cott Court

Cott Court comprises a house, originally probably dating from the 16th century, that was remodelled in the late 17th or 18th century and extended, likely in the 18th century. It has been converted into a row of three cottages. The building is constructed of roughly dressed stone rubble. No. 3, on the left, has a slate roof with a half-hipped end, while Nos. 1 and 3 have a roof at a slightly higher level with gabled ends and asbestos slates. Chimneys are rendered and include a gable-end stack on the right, an axial stack to the left of the centre of the building, and a rear lateral stack to the right of the centre, which has set-offs and slate weathering.

The original layout was likely a three-room and through-passage house, with the higher end on the left. Evidence suggests the hall was originally open to the roof, evidenced by reused smoke-blackened principal rafters. A floor was inserted in the late 17th or early 18th century, with a stack backing onto the passage at the lower end of the hall. The inner room is unheated, but the room to the right is heated from a rear lateral stack. The range was extended by a single-room plan addition at the lower right end, likely in the 18th century, when the house was divided into three cottages.

The exterior has an asymmetrical facade, approximately seven window bays wide, with late 19th and 20th-century two and three-light casement windows with glazing bars. There are three doorways with 20th-century glazed bars and asbestos-slated canopies, each with a side wall. There are two single-storey flat-roofed extensions at the rear and another at the left end.

Inside No. 3, the two left-hand rooms, possibly the former hall and wine rooms, have chamfered cross beams with run-out stops. The passage in No. 2 has large square-section joists, and a plank and muntin screen on the left side. The screen has unchamfered muntins on the passage side and is plastered on the lower room side. That room has cross joists with bead moulding and a rear lateral fireplace with an unchamfered timber lintel and stone rubble joints. No. 1 is the addition at the lower right end, with lightly chamfered ceiling beams and a blocked gable-end fireplace with a framed stair to the side of the stack. The roof features straight principals with pegged joints; some of the principals are reused, smoke-blackened, and have mortices for threaded purlins.