Recreation Cottage

Recreation Cottage is a detached cottage, likely originally two dwellings, dating from the 18th and 19th centuries. It was once accompanied by a recreation room and laundry. The left side of the building is constructed of squared and coursed limestone with large flush quoins, while the right side is of coursed rubble with flush quoins. It has a stone slate roof and stone stacks, one gable and one ridge stack. The cottage is two storeys with an attic, and has an irregular arrangement of two and two windows. The left side features a 3-light casement window at ground floor, with two 2-light casements above and a gabled 3-light dormer. A plank door is set under a large flush stone lintel with a slight peak and an incised four-armed device. To the right is a 4-light stone mullion casement with a hood over the first three lights and a 20th-century two-light stone mullioned casement in a former door opening, with two 2-light wooden casements above and another gabled dormer. The rear elevation includes a 1½-storey extension to the far left with a plank door and a recessed-chamfer mullion casement, also with a hood. The main part of the rear has concrete slate roofing, limewashed rubble walling, and several 20th-century gabled dormers. There is a single-light casement with leading at first floor, and two 2-light recessed-chamfer mullion casements with stopped hoods at ground floor, along with a central blocked doorway. A 19th-century glazed door, leading to an internal stair, is set up five steps from the road on the right return. The interior is only partially accessible and includes a 19th-century fireplace at the left end. The building may have originally had a through-passage 3-cell plan but has undergone extensive modification. The roof was partially replaced in 1926. The name derives from its former use as a recreation room for the village. It is situated set down from and at an angle to the B4070 road.