Red Deer Cottage

Red Deer Cottage is a house that was built in the mid-17th century and has been divided into separate units. The exterior features painted stone rubble on the front and sides, while the rear is mainly rendered cob. The gable-ended roof is covered with asbestos slate, although it was originally thatched. There are rendered stone stacks with weatherings.

The cottage has a three-room plan that faces south, with end rooms that have integral end stacks and an unheated central room. It has a central entrance and a straight staircase. The house has been divided, as indicated by a blocked front doorway, and the eaves were raised in the 20th century. It is two storeys high.

The front of the cottage is asymmetrically arranged with four windows on the first floor and three on the ground floor. Most of the windows are 18th-century three-light wooden casements, although some have been replaced in the 20th century and feature metal opening lights. The right-hand ground-floor window may date back to the 17th century, as suggested by the chamfered mullions visible inside. There is a 20th-century stable-type door located between the first and second windows from the left, which is sheltered by a 19th-century gabled porch supported by shaped brackets. To the right of the door, a 20th-century two-light wooden casement replaces a former doorway, as indicated by straight joints below. A strip buttress is present on the right-hand end of the front wall, possibly due to partial rebuilding. Additionally, there is a semi-circular bread oven with a slated top on the right-hand gable end.

Inside, the right-hand ground-floor room features a 17th-century chamfered cross beam with stepped run-out stops. The open stone fireplace in this room has a chamfered wooden lintel with stepped run-out stops and includes a bread oven. The front window in this room is likely a 17th-century feature with internally chamfered mullions. The left-hand ground-floor room has an adzed rough spine beam and a wall beam at the rear, along with a window seat on the front wall. There is also an open stone fireplace in this room, which has a chamfered wooden lintel and a bread oven with a 19th-century cast-iron door. The roof space has not been inspected.

The current owner reported in October 1987 that prior to the 20th-century alterations, the front wall consisted of rubble on the ground floor and cob on the first floor, with rubble piers supporting the ends of the roof trusses.