Wolleigh Cottage

Wolleigh Cottage is a house that was formerly two cottages and is likely to have been a farmhouse originally. It dates from the late 16th century or 17th century, with later additions on the left side and at the rear. The building is constructed of rendered stone and cob, topped with a thatched roof featuring rendered chimneystacks on each gable. The left addition has a low-pitched slated roof with clay ridge-tiles.

The layout consists of a two-room and through-passage plan, with an added stair turret behind the right-hand room. The cottage is two storeys high, with a single-storey addition at the rear. The front has three windows, all featuring 19th-century wooden casements with three lights, except for a two-light casement in the centre of the second storey, where each light has three panes. In the central bay of the ground storey, there is a pair of 20th-century glazed doors set within a solid-walled porch that has an asbestos slated pent roof.

The left addition, which is a converted outbuilding, has two windows grouped together at the left-hand end of the ground storey, both with single-light wooden casements; the right window has six panes, while the left has two panes. To the left of the second storey, there is a 20th-century wooden casement with two lights, each having two panes. On the left-hand gable facing the road, there is a small four-pane wooden casement window on the ground storey, and a two-light 20th-century wooden casement with two panes per light in the second storey.

Inside, the upper storey features rough floor-beams with little sign of a chamfer. The right-hand ground-storey room has a wide gable fireplace dating from the late 16th century or 17th century, with jambs made of large granite blocks and a chamfered wooden lintel with notched run-out stops. The roof, which dates from the 18th century or early 19th century, has trusses with collars pegged to the faces of plain principal rafters, and lacks purlins or common rafters, instead using thatching spars that appear to have been renewed in the 20th century.