Brig Cottage And Byre Adjoining To South

Brig Cottage and the adjoining byre to the south is a farmhouse dated 1639, although it may be older. It has 18th-century additions, including a first floor and the byre. The building is constructed from coursed rubble with quoins and is lime-washed. The house features a graduated slate roof with stone-flagged eaves, while the byre has a graduated stone-flag roof. It is two storeys high and consists of four bays with a stair outshut at the rear. The entrance has a plank outer door within a gabled porch, accompanied by a three-light mullioned window to the right, a 20th-century casement, and two two-light mullioned windows to the left, one of which is blocked. Above, there are two 19th-century sash windows. All the mullions are chamfered and set in chamfered surrounds. The two-bay byre has two late 18th-century or early 19th-century casements with wide glazing bars on the first floor and a door at the rear. The house has stone end chimneys.

Inside the house, there is a panelled bed cupboard, currently used as a larder, in the kitchen. The main ground floor room features a corniced and bracketed fireplace with foliate chip-carving on the lintel, resembling local fireplaces from the late 18th century. It includes a wrought-iron crane and a cast-iron range marked "BOWERBANK, PENRITH." To the left of the fireplace is an 18th-century panelled and corniced spice cupboard, with a later cupboard built into the wall between this room and the kitchen. The interior also has panelled doors, large beams with deep chamfers, and inserted joists that are moulded with stop chamfers.