Heasley Cottage

Heasley Cottage is a house that likely dates from the late 17th century or early 18th century. It is constructed of rendered cob on a high stone rubble plinth and has a gable-ended roof covered with modern asbestos slate. The building features brick stacks, two of which have been rebuilt.

The layout consists of a three-room plan with an entrance lobby and staircase situated between the central and left-hand rooms. The central room, which serves as the hall, includes an integral lateral stack at the rear. The left-hand room, possibly a former service room, has an integral end stack, while the kitchen on the right, which may have been an inner room, also features an integral end stack. This arrangement suggests that the house may have been remodeled from an earlier three-room and cross-passage design, with the staircase added in the passage.

Heasley Cottage was incorporated into a formal grouping with the nearby Heasley House Hotel and Yen Cottage in the early 19th century. The building is two storeys high and has an asymmetrical front facade with four windows on the first floor and three on the ground floor. Most of the windows are 19th-century two-light small-paned wooden casements, except for two first-floor windows on the right, which are 18th-century two-light leaded wooden casements, one of which has a metal opening light. There is a 19th-century boarded door located between the first and second ground-floor windows from the left, along with a modern rendered gabled porch that features a two-leaf boarded door.

Inside, the central ground-floor room has a slate-flagged floor and an open fireplace at the rear with a 19th-century surround. There is an 18th-century cupboard in the right-hand rear corner, which has two shaped shelves and a dentil cornice at the top. The right-hand ground-floor room, which serves as the kitchen, has a blocked fireplace. The left-hand ground-floor room features an 18th-century square recess to the left of a modern fireplace, with shelves and a cupboard below that has two doors and remnants of H-hinges, along with a moulded surround. There is also a recess in the front wall with a moulded surround.