The Little Cottage

The Little Cottage is an early to mid-17th century house with attached former outbuildings, situated on The Green in Bibury. The construction is of random and coursed rubble limestone, with ashlar chimneys and a stone slate roof. The house is a single storey with an attic, and features an attached outbuilding on its west side.

The front elevation has three full gables, each with three windows. The ground floor windows are 3-light, while the gable windows are 2-light, each with three rows of pigeon holes and perches in the gable apex. A stone finial decorates the central gable. The windows are recessed chamfered mullioned casements with hoodmoulds. A doorway, set between the central and right gables, includes a chamfered opening, glazed door, and a gabled timber porch. There are two ridge chimneys with plain caps; the chimney on the east end’s parapet gable is slightly off-centre. The east end’s recessed cavetto mullioned casements are two-light to the ground floor and single-light to the attic. A flat-roofed addition behind a screen wall with a coped top has been added to the outbuilding. The rear displays two gables, one with a 2-light recessed cavetto casement and the other containing a chimney.

Inside, there are some panelled partitions. A fine Tudor arched stone fireplace is located in the room at the east end.