No 24 (Causeway Cottage) Including Garden Railings, Gate-Piers And Gate

Causeway Cottage, also known as No 24, is a house that likely dates from the late 17th century to early 18th century, with refurbishments made in the 18th century and bay windows added in the mid-19th century. The building is constructed of colourwashed stuccoed stone and features a red tiled roof with sprocketted eaves, gabled at both ends. It has a truncated projecting stack on the left end and a tall brick shaft on the right end, with an additional stack for the rear left service block.

The house has an L-shaped plan, consisting of a single-depth main block at the front with two principal rooms on either side of an entrance passage that leads to an axial stair at the rear. The exterior is two storeys high and has a symmetrical three-bay front. The central entrance features a 20th-century part-glazed door with a rectangular fanlight above. There are canted bay windows on both sides, topped with wooden shingles, and the central lights have 19th-century 12-pane sashes while the outer lights have 8-pane sashes. The first floor has three 19th-century 16-pane sash windows.

Inside, the house showcases features from the 18th and 19th centuries. The front right room includes a white marble chimneypiece, shutters, and a segmental arched recess on the rear wall. The left room has an open fireplace with a high timber lintel and remnants of bread ovens. The joinery includes a stick baluster stair with a ramped handrail and 18th-century two-panel doors leading to the first floor. The roof consists of pegged collar rafter trusses beneath later timbers, with the collars lapped and notched into the principal rafters.

The house is slightly set back from the street and is accompanied by low stone rubble garden walls with iron railings featuring spear finials. A garden gate is flanked by iron gate piers. Documentation related to the house is said to date from the 1730s, according to the owner. This house is an interesting example of architectural evolution in the village centre.