Old Cottage

Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building that incorporates a telegraph house, dating from around 1830 and enlarged in the mid-19th century. It is constructed of brick with a thatched roof. This two-storey, two-bay cottage has a tall and thin profile, featuring a lean-to at one end. The building originally included a single-storey structure on each side of what is now one bay, which was part of the telegraph house. The left-hand added bay has a plank door beneath a timber gabled offset, with a two-light casement window above it and another window in the lean-to. The roof is hipped to the left, and there is a stack on the right-hand side. Old Cottage was one of the telegraph stations on the London to Plymouth line, which was part of the Admiralty communications system between Whitehall and its outstations, but it soon became redundant with the introduction of the electric telegraph.