Manor Farm Cottage And The Old Cottage

Manor Farm Cottage and The Old Cottage are two dwellings, originally a manor house, dating to the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. The building is constructed of squared and coursed limestone, with one wing of The Old Cottage featuring box timber framing on a stone plinth to the outer stone gable. The roofs are stone slate, with coped gables. There are stone stacks with simple cappings at the centre and left, and a large stack with a skirt and twin capped shafts at the back. A 20th-century extension has been added behind Manor Farm Cottage. The main part of the building has two storeys and attics, with two small gabled 2-light dormers above a series of flush-set mullion casements. The windows are 2, 3, and 2-light at the first floor, and 2, 3, and 3-light at ground floor. A 20th-century door is in the rear extension of Manor Farm Cottage, and a 20th-century plank door is located under a dormer at the extreme right of The Old Cottage. The return gable on the right side has a 1-light window to the gable and 3-light windows to the first and ground floors, all casements; the ground floor window has a stopped drip. A framed section then contains a 2-light dormer over two 20th-century 3-light casements, and the east gable features two 3-light casements with stopped drips to the left of the stack. The interior of Manor Farm Cottage retains remains of a large open bressummer fire and very heavy, rough-hewn beams. The Old Cottage has substantial box framing and heavy chamfered beams; a fine open fire with a large bressummer of slight pointed camber, over stone cheeks and Jacobean panelling, is present in each wing. The building is said to have been the manor house.