Shrove Cottage

Shrove Cottage is a former pair of cottages that has been converted into a single detached house, dating from the early 18th century. The building was extended and had its roof raised in the 19th century, with many windows replaced in the 20th century. It is primarily constructed of limestone rubble, with some coursed and squared stone on the original front, and features a stone slate roof.

The cottage is symmetrical, with two storeys and two windows, and has been extended by one bay to the right. There is a gabled wash-house at right angles to the main structure, parallel with the ridge, and a one-storey lean-to on the left, which includes a late 20th-century glazed porch on the right. The cottage is set against a slope, with a back that has been modified from its original plan.

On the ground floor, there are two 5-light recessed chamfered stone-mullioned casements with some early leading, flanking a 20th-century glazed door beneath a deep plain stone lintel. To the right, there is a 2-light wood casement in a former door opening and a 3-light casement, both with wood lintels. The first floor features 5-light 20th-century wood casements, and to the right of the central door, there is a 2-light stone mullioned window leading to the cellar. The left lean-to has a wide plank door, and the wash-house to the right has a door and window. The right end includes the gabled wash-house with two casements and a 20th-century glazed door and porch. The gables have plain stone ashlar stacks on the left side, while the back is plain with two lay-lights in the roof plane.

Inside, the cottage has a deep stone-checked bressumer on the left, which includes a bread oven and an ingle seat, flanked by a wood spiral staircase that extends through two floors. There are two rough chamfered beams in the large room and one rough chamfered large spine beam in the right room. Stone steps lead to the cellar at the back of the main room. There are no notable features on the first floor, and while the roof is not accessible, it is of late 19th-century structure. The left wash-house retains a cast iron pump connected to a stone container above a well that is 12 meters deep.