Shepherds Cottage

Shepherds Cottage is a house dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, originally divided into two cottages. It has a timber frame with brick infill and a brick facing to the front elevation, and a thatched roof. The building is two-and-a-half storeys and comprises three bays, with a fourth bay added to the right and refaced. There is a weatherboarded lean-to at the right and along the rear, with a tiled roof. A central 18th-century door is set within a solid frame, with a 20th-century bracketed hood at the inner end of the left bay. A two-light casement replaces a door in the inner end of the right bay. Most bays have 19th-century three-light casements, all of which are set within segmental heads constructed with a soldier and blue header brick course. A small 20th-century two-light casement is located to the left of the centre bay. An eyebrow dormer, containing a two-light casement, sits above the right-hand door, and a gabled dormer with a tiled surround and a three-light casement is above the left of centre bay. The roof is half-hipped and features a decorative ridge piece. A central 18th-century brick stack rises from the ridge, with an external stepped stack at the left end and a capped external stack at the right end.