Shuteley Cottage

Shuteley Cottage is a house likely dating from the mid to late 17th century, with a probable addition from the late 19th century. The walls are rendered cob, covered by a 20th-century asbestos-slate roof, likely replacing thatch. Stone stacks mark the ends of the building. A rendered addition, presumably built on stone rubble, has a gable-ended Welsh-slate roof. The house was originally planned around two rooms, with the ground level sloping to the right. The principal room is on the left, containing a staircase from the early to mid-19th century in the rear right-hand corner; an earlier staircase may have been located elsewhere. The right-hand stack is potentially a later addition from the late 17th or early 18th century, and the room at the right-hand end may also be an addition. A late 19th-century lean-to outshut extends from the rear of the left-hand end, and another addition serves as the present kitchen. The building is two storeys high, with a single-storey addition to the left.

The front facade is asymmetrical, featuring four windows on the first floor and three on the ground floor. Most of the windows are late 19th-century two-light wooden casements, although two ground-floor windows on the right-hand side have three lights. A late 20th-century flat-roofed porch with a half-glazed door sits to the left of the entrance. The single-storey addition has a small two-light wooden casement facing the front. The left-hand gable of the main section includes a bread oven at the base of the stack, covered by a pantile lean-to roof, and a small first-floor window to the left of the stack, featuring a small diamond-section wooden or metal mullion, possibly illuminating a former staircase. A raking buttress is visible at the rear of the left-hand end room.

Inside, the ground-floor rooms feature 17th-century chamfered cross beams. The left-hand room has a 17th-century open fireplace with stone jambs, a cambered chamfered wooden lintel with stepped stops, and a bread oven. A window seat is present at the front. The early to mid-19th century staircase is located in the rear right-hand corner of the left-hand room, with winders at the top, matchboarded sides, a boarded door at the foot, a boarded cupboard door under the stairs with strap hinges, and stick balusters to the landing balustrade. A 19th-century door separates the ground-floor rooms, and an old cream hob is set into the cross wall. The right-hand ground-floor room also has a 17th-century open fireplace with stone jambs and a chamfered wooden lintel with stepped notched stops.