Linda Cottage

Linda Cottage is a cottage, likely dating from the late 17th century, with renovations in the 19th and 20th centuries. The walls are whitewashed plastered cob on stone rubble footings, with a slate roof to the left and thatch to the right, both with gabled ends. The axial stack has been rebuilt in stone and brick. Originally, the cottage may have been a two-room and through-passage house, with a hall or kitchen to the left, heated by a gable-end stack (now the axial stack). The room to the right has been dismantled, possibly in the 19th century, when a smaller, unheated room was added to the left, and the ceilings likely replaced. Service rooms under a lean-to roof were probably added to the rear at the same time, creating the present plan: two rooms wide and one and a half rooms deep, with the former through passage at the right end of the range.

The front of the building has an asymmetrical two-window arrangement. The thatched roof to the right has eaves that are eyebrowed over a first-floor window and extend down as a sloping roof on stone cheeks, forming an open-fronted porch to the right. A wide, three-plank front door has a pegged doorframe; the rear door of the passage has been blocked. A first-floor window to the right is a two-light casement, likely from the 18th century, with some old glass. Other windows are 19th-century two- and three-light casements with glazing bars. There are two shallow buttresses to the front.

The interior features are mostly 19th and 20th century. There are exposed joists of slender scantling, a 19th-century stair running to the rear of the axial stack, and a 20th-century grate said to conceal earlier features. The roof trusses are pegged; however, access to the apex of the roof was not possible during the survey in 1985.