The Old Cottage

The Old Cottage is a house with a core dating from the 17th century, which was altered in the 19th century. It is constructed from mixed limestone and sandstone rubble and features a stone slate roof. The building has two storeys and a two-window range, with a wing extending to the rear right. The front entrance consists of a 20th-century six-panel door, with the upper two panels glazed, set within a 19th-century dressed stone surround. On the right side, there are horned 2/2 sash windows on both floors, each with projecting stone sills and 19th-century surrounds. There is a matching sash window on the ground floor to the left, next to a blocked doorway with a wooden lintel, and a small 3/6 sash window above it. The roof is steeply pitched and has brick stacks at both ends.

Inside, the left room features a 17th-century chamfered ashlar fireplace with an iron grate, along with a transverse oak beam and oak joists. The right room is separated by an ashlar wall and contains a 19th-century stone fireplace with a cast-iron range, which was installed in 1994. On the first floor, the upper rooms are divided by cruck-like curved principals that rest on a tie beam, which has been cut through to create a doorway. The truss is infilled with 17th-century plank and muntin partitioning. The left room retains original purlins that show wind brace mortices near the gable, along with oak ceiling joists. The right room has oak and elm floorboards and wavy purlins. A plank and muntin screen in the rear wing is not original to the house.