Deedas Cottage Including Front Garden Area Wall To South

Deedas Cottage is a house dating from the early to mid 17th century, with additions from the 19th century and alterations in the 20th. It is constructed of rendered stone rubble, with an asbestos slate hipped roof featuring black-glazed ridge tiles. A rendered aerial stack, formerly at the gable end and having a louvred yellow clay pot, is situated towards the right-hand end. A projecting lateral stack at the rear has a rendered shaft and weathered set-offs.

The house originally had a 2 or 3-room plan and a through passage. The lower end, to the right, was originally heated by a gable-end stack, while the hall has a lateral stack at the back. A small room at the left end may have been the original inner room of the house; in the 20th century, a doorway was inserted at the front and a staircase installed at the back, replacing an earlier newel staircase. Later partitions within the through passage were removed, and the original front doorway was blocked. A 19th-century outshut behind the higher end was restored in the 20th century. A small, two-storey addition, also of the 19th century, extends from the lower right-hand end.

The south front has an asymmetrical arrangement of four windows. The first floor has two windows, and the ground floor has four, all with 20th-century 2-light casements with glazing bars and slate sills. The original central doorway has been replaced with a window. The current doorway is at the left-hand end and features a 17th-century plank door with moulded cover strips, believed to have come from another house. A large 20th-century open porch with a slate hipped canopy on timber posts stands before the doorway. The rear elevation has three 20th-century casements on the first floor, a projecting lateral stack, and a single-storey lean-to outshut. The right-hand, east-facing end presents a symmetrical front with three 20th-century casements.

Inside, the hall (formerly the central room) has a chamfered cross-beam with straight-cut stops and a blocked rear lateral fireplace. The fireplace at the lower left-hand end has a 20th-century timber lintel. The roof structure shows roughly fashioned principals with lapped and pegged collars.

A probable 19th-century slate rubble wall, with a curved right-hand end and 20th-century palings above, encloses the small front garden area.