Waldon Cottage

SHEEPWASH THE SQUARE, Sheepwash SS 40 NE 7/103 Waldon Cottage - 15.1.76 (Ennerdale) GV II House. Circa mid C17 with C18 addition. Plastered cob walls. Gable-ended thatch roof. Brick stack at each gable-end and 1 rear lateral stack. Plan: probably originated as 2 or 3-room-and-through-passge plan - lower room to the right, passage now infilled with C20 staircase although as the house backs onto the churchyard there may never have been a back door. The inner room may formerly have had a non-domestic use. Probably in the C18 a small outbuilding was added in front of the lower room which was converted in the later C20. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-window front of C19 and early C20 small-paned 2-light casements the 1st floor windows have small gables above. C20 plank door to right of centre under thatch doorhood. Single storey former outbuilding projecting from right-hand end. Interior: right-hand room has fireplace with chamfered wooden lintel with notched stops. Probably C18 or early C19 roof structure of rough straight principals with lapped and pegged collars. The picturesque appearance of this building, with the Church tower rising behind it, contributes greatly to the setting of the village square.

Listing NGR: SS4867606329