Cobstone Cottage

Cobstone Cottage is a cottage dating from the late 17th or early 18th century, with later additions to the rear. The cottage is built of roughcast stone with a slate roof. A substantial projecting chimneystack is located in the left-hand gable, featuring a projecting course of slatestone as a cap, topped by a later roughcast shaft. It is believed this stack originally belonged to a now-demolished adjoining cottage. A smaller roughcast stack is present on the right-hand gable. The original section of the cottage currently contains only one ground-floor room, but it likely had two originally. The cottage has two storeys and two widely-spaced windows, with a central doorway. The windows are modern wood casements with six panes per light. Dormer windows in the upper storey have four-paned transom lights. A modern plank door, with the top half opening separately, is set within a modern gabled porch. The interior includes a rough, partly chamfered upper-floor beam in the ground-floor room. The fireplace in the right-hand gable is reconstructed using old granite blocks, although the plain right-hand jamb is likely original. One original roof truss remains, with plain feet to the principal rafters and peg-holes suggesting a collar was originally pegged to the face of the truss. The building is included on the listing for group value.