Willowray Cottage

Willowray Cottage is a cottage dating from around the early 17th century, with later modernisation in the 20th century. It is constructed of rendered granite rubble with a thatched roof. The roof is gabled on the right-hand side and hipped on the left, with a raised section above the central first-floor window. There is a rendered granite rubble projecting stack at the right gable end and a rendered brick axial stack, offset from the ridge. The cottage originally comprised three rooms; the right-hand room was heated by the gable end stack and contains a newel staircase on the left. An axial stack was likely inserted into the left-hand end of the central room, which has a direct entry doorway. The left-hand room appears to have been an unheated store, separated by a thick wall from the living quarters. A 20th-century addition was built to the rear of the left-hand room. The asymmetrical facade has one first-floor window to the left of centre, and two ground-floor windows either side of the doorway to the left of centre. The ground-floor windows are 2-light casements with glazing bars, and the first-floor windows are 3-light casements with glazing bars. The doorway has an original chamfered crank-headed wooden frame with a 20th-century stable-type door beneath a thatched porch supported on posts resting on low walls. A small stair light is located to the right of the chimney stack at the right-hand gable end. Inside, the main right-hand room features chamfered cross beams with hollow step stops. The central room has chamfered half beams above each partition wall. Stone newel stairs rise beside the gable end stack. The first-floor partition to the chamber above the main room is an original plank and muntin screen framed by side-pegged jointed crucks. The muntins to the left of the off-centre doorway are chamfered with plain run-out stops, while those to the right of the doorway have hollow step stops. The roof space is inaccessible. The cottage contains a plank and muntin screen on the first floor, a relatively unusual feature, and retains its traditional facade.