Stone Cottage

MATERIALS The cottage is constructed from red brick on a stone plinth, with render to the rear sections, under Cornish slate roofs, with corrugated metal to the rear extension, and brick stacks.

PLAN The building is orientated east-west, with the main elevation facing south across its substantial plot of land. The three principal rooms are ranged across the front (south) elevation, with the kitchen and ancillary rooms in the outshut which runs across the rear. There is a short range running north from the western end of the outshut.

EXTERIOR The building is of three-bays and a single-storey; it is single-depth with an additional outshut to the rear. The three-bay front range is built in red brick laid in Monk bond, set on a stone plinth; the central, gabled bay breaks forward slightly, and has a central entrance doorway under a rubbed-brick flat-arched voussoir; it houses a late-C20 half-glazed door. The doorway is flanked by single-light openings with mid-C20 metal-framed windows under soldier courses, with terracotta tile cills. In the gable is a small dressed-stone breather with a moulded cruciform opening. The flanking bays each have a two-light opening with metal-framed windows, also under soldier courses and with tile cills. The eaves course projects slightly. There are brick stacks to either end of the main range, each slightly corbelled-out. The rear outshut is rendered brick, and has metal windows under timber lintels with tile cills. A tall central stack rises from the rear of the main range at the junction with the outshut. There is a short range extending northwards from the western end, which has a monopitch roof and two door openings in its eastern elevation.

INTERIOR The three principal rooms to the front of the cottage remain largely as built; their fireplaces remain, though the grates have been removed and their surrounds are modern timber examples. The floors are covered in narrow timber boards. The rear outshut has been altered slightly to create a large kitchen from the former dairy and wash-house, together with a study and bathroom, accessed from an inner lobby, which occupy space formerly given over to a privy and accommodation for animals. The kitchen retains its red-tile floor.