Kelly Cross Cottage

Kelly Cross Cottage is a cottage dating from the late 16th century or early 17th century, with an added lean-to. It is constructed of roughcast cob and features a thatched roof that is half-hipped on the right-hand side. The left-hand gable has a rendered stone chimneystack with thatch weatherings and a tapered top, while the right-hand gable has a projecting brick stack, also rendered. The cottage has a two-room and through-passage plan, with the rear doorway blocked by a later staircase; the larger left-hand room was clearly the hall. It is two storeys high and has two widely spaced windows with a doorway between. The windows have old wooden casements, except for the left-hand ground-storey window, which is from the 20th century. The cottage features a plank door and a wooden porch, both also from the 20th century. In the lean-to on the left, there is an older plank door with strap hinges. The right-hand gable contains a metal casement window from the 18th or early 19th century with leaded panes; the upper part of this opening, now blocked, rises into the roof space.

Inside, the left-hand gable on the ground floor has a fireplace with granite jambs and a chamfered wood lintel featuring step-stops, along with a large oven at the back. To the left of the fireplace is a winding granite staircase. In the ground-floor room to the right, there is a chamfered upper-floor beam with run-out stops. The roof has two original trusses with plain, heavy principal rafters resting on the wall tops, halved collars with shaped ends, through purlins, and a ridge. The common rafters appear to have been renewed. The partition wall and chimney in the roof space above the room over the hall are plastered. Well-preserved cottages of this date are uncommon.