The Old Bothy

The Old Bothy is a 20th-century building constructed from stone with galleted joints, featuring red brick dressings and slate roofs. It has extensive use of glazed tiles as an internal wall covering. The layout includes a central hall flanked by side ranges to the west and east, with stairs at the rear leading to an upper partial floor.

The entrance elevation faces south and is the most decorative, showcasing more red brick detailing around the door and flanking windows, which have segmental arched heads. The piers for the doorway rise above a decorated gable that includes an oval window. The windows are timber-framed with leaded lights, giving the building a style reminiscent of an Edwardian village hall. In contrast, the rear elevation is more modest, featuring two gabled end bays with louvered oculi on the first floor and three flat-roofed central bays separated by shallow brick piers. These central bays have large round-arched overlights above off-centre solid wooden doors, which appear to be secondary.

Inside, the central hall has a boarded roof with roof lights and exposed metal trusses, flanked by smaller rooms. The stairs to the attic storey are located at the centre rear of the building. The interior retains many original features, including quarry tile and parquet flooring. The internal walls are tile clad, with white and olive green dressings in the hall and brown in the rear staircase hall. The hall and side ranges are separated by large round-headed arches dressed with olive green tiles, with a glazed timber screen in the eastern arch. The upper floor, present only at the rear of the building due to the double-height hall to the south, was not inspected as the floor was deemed unsafe.