Orchard Cottage Including Garden Walls And Garden Gate

Orchard Cottage is a farm cottage dating to 1933, designed by William Curtis Green for P.D. Tuckett. The cottage is built of brick, some parts roughcast and with slate-hung gables, and has a slate roof with gables on all four sides, as well as an axial brick stack with a wide, low, stone shaft. It is an example of Vernacular Revival style. The building comprises a rectangular two-room plan with an outshut on the west side, and a front door located in the angle between the main block and the outshut. The west-facing entrance elevation has an asymmetrical 1:3 window arrangement, with one window to the projecting outshut, which has a catslide roof and deep stone footings. A flight of stone steps leads to a nicely-detailed oak front door, above which is a granite date plaque inscribed “PDT 1933”. Above the plaque is a two-light ribbon window. To the right of the front door are a one-light and a two-light casement window with glazing bars. A short section of elegant iron railing near the steps incorporates a boot-scraper. The rear (east) elevation features a recessed porch with three oak doors, a two-light small pane casement to the right, a one-light window to the left, and a four-light small pane casement on the first floor. The north elevation has a four-light first floor four-pane casement and a pair of similar two-light ground floor casements; the south elevation has one ground floor and one first floor four-light small pane casements. Included in the listing are stone rubble garden walls to the north and south of the west elevation, with a rounded pier at the north end which ramps up to abut the outshut, and to the south, a good 1930s timber gate with a simple curved brace and a functional hinge and latch. The interior is said to contain stone floors and may have other contemporary features. The cottage is a remarkably intact example of a high-quality Vernacular Revival farm cottage.