Lovaton Cottage

Lovatton Cottage is a small house dating from the 17th century, with 19th-century additions and alterations. It features granite and slate rubble walls and a gable-ended slate roof. There are two 20th-century rebuilt rubble stacks, one at each gable end, and an original large granite rubble lateral stack at the front. The original layout consisted of a two-room plan, with a hall/kitchen on the right heated by the front lateral stack and an unheated service room on the left. In the 19th century, a one-room extension was added to the right-hand end, and a lean-to was built at the left-hand end, which has since been enlarged to two storeys.

The cottage is two storeys high and has an asymmetrical four-window front, featuring 20th-century four-pane sash windows on the ground floor and two-light casements with glazing bars on the first floor. There is a 20th-century flat-roofed conservatory to the left of centre, built out from a 19th-century open-fronted lean-to porch. A part-glazed door from the 20th century leads into the house, with the doorway located to the left of the lateral stack. At the rear, there is a small granite-framed light to the right of centre on the first floor, and evidence of where the eaves were raised is visible.

Inside, the granite-framed fireplace remains at the lateral stack, featuring a straight lintel with chamfered jambs. The height of the hearth above the floor indicates that the floor level has been lowered. No original features are visible on the first floor, and all roof timbers are from the later 20th century.