Blackpool Cottage Including Outbuilding Adjoining Noeth West

Blackpool Cottage is a late 18th or early 19th century cottage, originally a pair, with an adjoining outbuilding. It was remodelled in the late 19th or early 20th century. The cottage is constructed of colourwashed local stone rubble, with some rendered and cob sections visible in the upper walls. It has a thatched roof with gabled ends and three small gables at the front, and projecting gable end stacks, the brickwork of which has been heightened. The outbuilding has a lower, gable-ended thatched roof, with eaves lower at the front than at the back. Originally, the cottages were arranged as a pair, each with a single room heated by gable end stacks, and with adjoining entrances to central passages containing staircases against the party wall. In the early to mid-19th century, a single-story outbuilding was built at the left-hand end. Later, in the late 19th or early 20th century, the cottages were converted into a single house by removing the left-hand staircase, expanding the left-hand room. One doorway was blocked, and two-bay windows were added to the front. The west front is asymmetrical, with three windows. The first floor has three large, late 19th or early 20th century, two-light casement windows with glazing bars, with reed applied to the tympana of the gables above. The ground floor has two small, late 19th or early 20th century, canted bays with thatched roofs and casement windows with glazing bars, and a small, circa early 20th century, two-light casement with glazing bars to the left. A circa early 19th century, flush panel door with glazed top panels is positioned at the right of centre, under an open porch with a hipped thatched canopy supported on rustic timber posts. The outbuilding on the left-hand end has two fixed-light windows (one of six panes, the other of two panes) and a doorway with a 20th-century plank door. The right-hand gable end has a 20th-century two-light casement with glazing bars. The rear wall is built into a steep bank. The interior of the right-hand room shows a plastered ceiling and a simple moulded fireplace with a cornice and blue and white Delft tiles. The larger left-hand room has exposed ceiling beams. The central passage has a horizontal boarded partition on the right-hand side and panelled doors, with a straight staircase at the back. This building is noted for its group value.