Prospect Cottage

Prospect Cottage is a house, originally a farmhouse, dating back to the 17th century, and possibly with earlier origins. It has been substantially altered internally during the 20th century. The walls are rendered rubble cob, topped with a hipped thatched roof. There are two projecting rendered rubble stacks at the rear. The original layout was a three-room plan with a through passage, although the location of the passage is now unclear due to later alterations. The building is two storeys high and has an asymmetrical three-window front, with four windows visible on the ground floor. The first-floor windows are early to mid-18th century casements with glazing bars; a three-light window is to the left, another to the left of centre, and a two-light window to the right. The ground-floor window to the right is a four-light window of the 18th century, with wood mullions (square in section) and glazing bars. To the right of centre is likely a 17th-century three-light wood mullion window, with an external chamfer and glazing bar to the central light. On either side of this window are 20th-century part-glazed doors, sheltered by a thatched porch hood supported by wooden posts. To the left of the left-hand door is a three-light window from the late 18th or early 19th century, and to its left a three-light 19th-century casement with glazing bars. Inside, the fireplace in the right-hand room, presumed to be a lower room, has a chamfered wooden lintel with hollow step stops. The hall fireplace has a chamfered wooden lintel with worn or run-out stops. The roof space is inaccessible from within, but the feet of straight principals are visible on the first floor, along with pegged collars, suggesting a date from the 18th or 19th century. Despite the internal alterations, the house retains a relatively traditional facade incorporating some older window frames.