1 North Harton Cottage

This is a former farmhouse, dating from the 17th or early 18th century, and later extended to the west. It is constructed of granite rubble with a pitched concrete-tile roof, and features three chimney stacks: two of granite and one rendered. The building has a linear east-west footprint.

The south elevation, with four window bays, shows the original three-window arrangement, including an entrance with a plank door featuring applied ribs, and a later single-window bay to the left. Stone quoins mark the ends of the building and the join between the original house and the later extension, where a buttress is also visible. The older part of the ground floor has windows with segmental arches, while the right-hand windows and the window above the entrance feature early 18th-century timber casements with moulded mullions and leaded panes. To the left of the entrance are a ground-floor three-light timber casement and a first-floor 20th-century metal-framed window. The later west-end bay has a ground-floor two-light six-pane timber casement with a large granite lintel, and a first-floor four-pane timber casement. Granite and slate cills are present on this elevation. The eastern gable end has a small ground-floor two-pane timber-casement window. The western gable end’s ground floor is partially obscured by the adjacent bank, but has a small first-floor timber window with leaded panes. The rear elevation, facing into a courtyard, has an irregular arrangement of timber casements. Two single-storey lean-tos with concrete-tile roofs are attached; one provides access to the rear entrance to the cross passage. The house has two granite stacks with drip ledges, one at the east end and one off-centre on the ridge (at the original west end), and a smaller rendered stack at the west end. A small flat-roofed infill is located at the north-west corner, adjoining 2 North Harton Cottage (which is not part of this listed building).

Inside, the cross passage has plank doors with strap hinges. The room to the left of the passage features a chamfered ceiling beam and a substantial fireplace with a large timber lintel. The later west-end bay contains a reused two-panelled door, and a fireplace with large granite jambs and a timber lintel. A cupboard with a plank door in the northern wall marks the former access to the rear wing. To the right of the passage is a heated room with a small cast-iron fireplace and brick surround, and a later straight-flight staircase with stick balustrades. On the first floor are some early 18th-century and later panelled doors. The feet of the earlier roof trusses are visible in the first-floor rooms, above which is a 20th-century king-post roof.