Meadow Cottage

Meadow Cottage is a house dating from the early 17th century, with alterations made in the early to mid-20th century. It is constructed of red sandstone random rubble and features a concrete tiled roof, with brick stacks located at the right gable end, set in from the gable end on the left. The building has a two-cell plan with a cross passage that opens into a winder stair, along with a single cell wing at the rear. It is one and a half storeys high and has three bays, all fitted with 20th-century casement windows. The ground floor windows are situated under cemented lintels, and there is a central early 17th-century depressed Tudor arch head moulded door surround with a 20th-century door and a pentice hood porch.

Inside, there are depressed four-centred arch door frames opening on either side of the cross passage and at the rear to the stairway. Similar doorways connect both rooms to the rear wing. The room to the left, which was originally the kitchen, features a large chimney breast with what is likely a curing chamber to the right. The interior also includes stop-chamfered beams with step and run-out stops, winder stairs, and a newel post that has been cut down, along with two more depressed head door frames on the first floor. The survival of so many original internal details is quite unusual, and the cottage is noted as an early example of a symmetrical plan in a small dwelling.