Puffets

Two cottages, now Nos. 73 (Puffets) and 75, Little Barrington, stand in a row and were originally three cottages built in the early 18th century. The front facade is ashlar, while the roof is covered in stone slates with ashlar stacks. The cottages present a facade of two storeys and six windows. All windows are 2-light, hollow-chamfered stone mullioned casements with double-chamfered surrounds. Moulded hoods are positioned above almost all of the ground floor windows, and a band runs at the same level as the lintels of the first-floor windows. A 20th-century plank door, set within a roll-moulded surround, is found to the left of the doorway for No. 75, and is sheltered by a 20th-century flat canopy supported on molded stone brackets. A window to the right of this doorway is set within a blocked doorway. Most windows retain leaded panes. A 20th-century plank doorway with a roll-moulded surround is present at No. 73, with a molded hood above. A 19th-century four-panelled door, with the upper two panels glazed, is situated to the right within a similar surround, and has a keystone. A flat stone capping with a molded margin, supported on molded stone brackets, sits above the door, with a molded hood on the band above the canopy. The surrounds to all windows and doorways project slightly from the facade, and there is a molded eaves cornice. The slate roofing is designed to overhang sufficiently to eliminate the need for guttering. Gable-end and axial stacks have cappings and skirtings. Internally, there are two small 18th-century spice cupboards fitted with original panelled doors to the right of the ground-floor fireplace. A 18th-century shell-headed alcove with pierced decoration is in the same room. In an upstairs room, there is an early 18th-century molded dressed stone fireplace. The detailing on the exteriors of these cottages is similar to that of Park Farmhouse and Manor Farmhouse, suggesting that all three buildings were constructed around the same time.