Day Cottage

Day Cottage is a Grade II listed cottage, originally built in the late 17th century, with some alterations and additions from the late 19th and late 20th centuries. The structure features rendered cob on a high stone rubble plinth, along with a rendered stone addition. It has a gable-ended slate roof, which was likely thatched in the past. There is a stone end stack on the right with a later brick top section, and a brick end stack on the left.

The original plan consists of a two-room layout from the 17th century, with a hall on the right that has an external end stack, and a smaller unheated room on the left. The central entrance leads into the cottage, but the original central staircase was removed in the late 20th century, resulting in one large ground-floor room. A new staircase was added to the left, and there is a blocked front doorway to the right-hand room. To the left, there is a 19th-century one-room plan addition with an integral end stack, which was remodeled in the late 20th century, along with a late 20th-century addition at the rear of this left-hand end that replaced a 19th-century outshut. The cottage is two storeys tall, with a one-storey addition from the late 20th century.

The exterior is roughly symmetrical with a two-window front, featuring 19th-century two-light small-paned wooden casements with slate cills. The right-hand ground-floor window may have originally been a doorway, indicated by straight joints below. The central doorway has a 20th-century plank door and a beaded wooden frame. There is a projecting bread oven at the right-hand end stack, likely an addition as suggested by the straight joints.

Inside, there is a 17th-century chamfered cross beam to the right of the entrance, featuring unusual double-stepped curved stops. The large open fireplace from the 17th century has stone jambs and a chamfered wooden lintel, also with double-stepped curved stops, along with a bread oven that has a pointed-arched opening and a 19th-century cast-iron door. The first-floor rooms and roof space have not been inspected.