The Dairy And Adjoining Cottage To Its East

The Dairy and the adjoining cottage to its east are a pair of cottages that were originally one house, dating from the early 16th century with additions from the 17th century. The buildings have been altered, likely in the early 20th century. They feature rendered stone rubble walls and a thatched roof, with an axial stack that has a brick shaft.

Originally, the structure had a three-room-and-through-passage plan, where the hall and inner room with a rear wing make up the dairy, and the passage and lower end form the adjoining cottage on the right. The original layout may have included a small open hall, possibly with a central hearth, although this cannot be confirmed without accessing the roof space. The inner room has a chamber that jetties into the hall, but it is unclear if this was an original feature or a later addition. The hall stack backs onto the passage, and the rear wing behind the hall and inner room likely dates from the early 17th century. The division into two cottages probably occurred in the late 19th or early 20th century.

The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical three-window front, with windows positioned towards the left and right ends. The dairy on the left has a two-window front featuring early 20th-century three-light casements, along with a gabled 20th-century porch to the left of centre and a part-glazed door. The right-hand cottage has a late 19th-century four-pane sash window on the first floor and a late 19th-century canted bay window below, with a 20th-century part-glazed door to the left.

Inside the dairy, there is an original shouldered-head wooden doorframe in the partition at the higher end of the hall, and early 20th-century tongue and groove panelling that may conceal an earlier plank and muntin screen. Above this partition are internal jetty joists with rounded ends. The rear wing features a chamfered half beam with hollow step stops. There is no access to the roof space, and no principal rafters are visible on the first floor.