Bell Hill Cottage And Attached Barn

Bell Hill Cottage and attached barn are a mid-18th century barn with a house added later in the 19th century, dated 1854 and built for William Mackworth-Dolben. The house is constructed of squared coursed and the barn of regular coursed ironstone, both with ashlar dressings and a slate roof. The house has a two-unit plan and two storeys, with a two-window range of stone-mullion windows, the first-floor windows each having a gabled half dormer above. A central 19th-century ribbed door is set within a moulded stone surround. The house features ashlar gable parapets and ashlar stacks at each end. The barn, attached to the left, has two widely spaced door openings with moulded stone surrounds, with hayloft doors above featuring 19th-century arched heads. The barn also has half dormers with gables, and 19th-century gabled buttresses located between the doors. A datestone is visible on the house between the window range, featuring the initials ‘M’ and ‘D’ above the windows. A limestone shield is set in the right-hand gable. The interior of the house has not been inspected.