The Cottage

The Cottage is a building that was likely constructed in the late 17th century or early 18th century and has also served as a post office. It features a thatched roof made of wheat straw and is constructed from rendered cob, with red brick stacks at the ends. An early 20th-century addition is made of painted rock-faced snecked dressed stone with brick dressings and has a gable-ended roof covered with Welsh slate. There are also minor late 20th-century additions.

The layout consists of a two-room central entrance plan with an integral end stack, oriented south at right angles to the road. A central straight flight of stairs rises from the entrance lobby. The larger principal room is located to the right, with a rear doorway positioned behind the stairs. An early 20th-century one-storey addition at the right end likely served as the former post office. There is a late 20th-century lean-to conservatory on the left gable end and a late 20th-century bathroom addition at the rear of the left end. The building is two storeys tall, with the one-storey additions.

The exterior is nearly symmetrical with a two-window front featuring 19th-century two-light wooden casements. The roughly central entrance has an early 20th-century half-glazed four-panel door, with the lower panels beaded flush, and a late 20th-century gabled glazed porch. To the left of the door is a narrow raking buttress, and wide raking buttresses flank the right-hand ground-floor window. The early 20th-century addition to the right has an old plank door at the front with a beaded wooden frame and wooden lintel, along with a window in the right gable end that has a segmental head and two plank shutters with strap hinges. There is a disused George VI post box in the wall to the left of the window. The late 20th-century lean-to conservatory is attached to the left gable end of the cottage.

Inside, the right-hand ground-floor room features plain joists that span from front to back, and there is an open fireplace with stone jambs and a plain wooden lintel. A doorway between the entrance lobby and the right-hand room has been blocked.