Orchard Cottage

Orchard Cottage is a pair of attached houses that have been converted into a single dwelling. It dates from the late 18th century or early 19th century and is constructed of limestone rubble with a dressed stone front wall and quoins. The roof is made of stone tiles and features gabled ends, with rendered gable-end stacks.

The building is two storeys high with an attic and has a symmetrical southeast front that includes four windows. The original two-light windows on the first floor have wrought-iron casements, while the ground floor features a similar three-light window to the right, with timber lintels and stone cills. The left side of the ground floor has been replaced by a French casement. There are two doorways at the center; the left has been replaced by a casement window, and the right has a 20th-century glazed door with a gabled canopy supported by brackets. Additionally, there are two small gabled dormers with wrought-iron casements. The rear elevation has two small narrow windows with old frames on the first floor and three 20th-century casements on the ground floor.

Inside, the plan has been altered, but the central partition wall remains. The ground and first floors feature slightly chamfered cross-beams and exposed joists, likely for the staircase, along with wide elm floorboards and some original plank doors. The stairs have been replaced, but the original four-bay tenoned-purlin roof structure is still intact. Orchard Cottage is an unusual example of a Georgian pair of attached vernacular houses that remains largely intact despite being converted into one house.