Cores End Cottage Cores End House

Cores End House and Cores End Cottage is a Grade II* listed house, dating from around 1730, with a rear wing added around 1800. The front range is constructed of red and vitreous brick, arranged in an irregular chequered pattern, and features an old tile roof that is half-hipped to the left. There are brick chimneys with cogged caps from around 1800 located on the right and rear of the building. The house is double-pile, two storeys high with an attic, and consists of five bays. It has a gauged first floor band with a central dentil course and a wooden eaves cornice adorned with shaped modillions. The windows are boxed 3-pane sashes, all replaced in the 20th century, featuring gauged brick heads and stone sills. The central first floor window is blind and painted. There are two flat-roofed dormers with paired wooden casements and dentil cornices. The central entrance features a six-panelled door with a four-pane rectangular fanlight and a wooden cornice hood supported by shaped scroll brackets.

At the rear, there is a central hipped stair turret with an original sash window that has been re-sited. The rear wing is made of brick with dentil eaves, a hipped old tile roof, and brick chimneys with cogged caps. This wing is two storeys tall and has three bays. The right side features original paired leaded casements, with the ground floor windows having segmental heads and panelled shutters. There is a small 20th-century diamond-shaped window between the right bays and an original two-panelled door to the left, set within a wooden trellis porch. A 20th-century flat-roofed extension projects to the right.

Inside, all front rooms retain their original panelling and boxed cornices. The upper left room includes a fireplace with a shouldered wooden architrave surround, a pulvinated frieze, and a cornice. The original staircase features column balusters, a closed string, a moulded handrail, and square newels.