Lilac Cottage

Lilac Cottage is a cottage dating from the late 17th or early 18th century, with probable extensions in the 18th or early 19th century. It is constructed of rendered and whitewashed stone rubble, with an asbestos slate roof, originally thatched according to the owner. The cottage has rendered axial and corner stacks.

The original house comprised a two-room plan, with a smaller unheated room to the left and a larger room to the right. The larger room was originally heated from a gable-end stack (now axial), with a stair turret positioned beside the stack at the rear. The partition wall between the two rooms has been removed. A single-room plan addition, probably from the 18th or 19th century, is attached to the right; it is heated from a fireplace in the front corner and has a 20th-century two-storey extension to the rear. A 19th-century outbuilding is situated behind the left end of the original part, featuring doorways on its outer left side. Another 19th-century single-storey outshut is attached to the right front corner.

The cottage sits high above and at a right angle to the road, built into the bank at the rear. The south-east front has an asymmetrical arrangement of three windows. A 19th-century two-light casement window with glazing bars is centrally positioned on both the ground and first floors, the ground floor window featuring a slate hoodmould. A smaller 20th-century casement window is to the left on the ground floor. The original doorway, now fitted with a late 19th-century glazed door and slated canopy, is to the right of centre. To the right is another doorway with a 20th-century glazed door, now enclosed within a 20th-century glazed conservatory which angles with the single-storey outbuilding. At the rear, a large semi-circular stair turret is built into the ground, rising higher at the rear than the front. A 20th-century two-storey flat-roofed extension is positioned to the left.

The interior, observed from the front windows, reveals exposed rough ceiling joists. The fireplace in the larger left-hand room has been reduced in size. A stone newel stair is reportedly located within the stair turret. The roof structure is said to have been replaced.