Manifold Cottage

Manifold Cottage is a house dating from the 18th century, with an addition made in the 19th century. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with a clay tile roof, and features an ashlar ridge stack and an integral end stack made of hammer-dressed ashlar to the south. Originally, the house was planned as a two-room dwelling with a rear outshot under a catslide roof, creating a rough “L” shape. Integral end stacks are present, and the original entrance was from the left-hand side of the left-hand room; the staircase was located to the rear of this room within the outshot. In the mid-19th century, the house was extended southwards, blocking the old doorway and creating a new entrance in the extension. The cottage is two storeys high and has three windows. The casement windows on either side of the centre window are from the 18th century and retain a central, flat-faced mullion. The windows on the right side date to the mid-19th century and have raised sills. A small, single-light window on the ground floor left is positioned where a former doorway once stood. A 20th-century door with a lozenge light is located on the right, and a building break above it and along the left-hand jamb clearly indicates the house's two main phases of construction. Inside, there are exposed, stopped and chamfered spine beams with run-out stops, chamfered mullions, and a small cupboard in the right-hand wall of the central room.