The Cottage

The Cottage is a house built in 1912 by Sir Edwin Lutyens for Lord Wimborne's agent. It features a coursed limestone and ironstone rubble plinth, with main walls made of pebbledashed brick and ironstone ashlar dressings, topped with a tile roof and brick stacks. The building has an H-plan layout and stands two storeys tall with five bays, including projecting gabled outer bays on both the entrance and garden fronts.

A two-storey central porch with a hipped roof contains a doorway framed by an ironstone ashlar arch with large tapered jambs and a ribbed, studded plank door. All windows are two-light wood casements with tile hoods, except for the similar four-light windows located in the outer bay on the first floor. The garden side features three French windows at the center.

At the time of the survey, a stone porch designed by Lutyens for the side of the house was being taken down for restoration. There is an extension projecting forward from the left side of the entrance front, built with the same materials as the main house, which was likely a former stable and is now used as a garage. This extension is one storey high with two bays and has battered buttresses on the wall facing the entrance to the house and a garage doorway, along with casement windows at the rear.

Inside, the house has fireplaces with stone and oak bolection surrounds in two of the ground floor rooms. An open well staircase connects the floors, featuring continuous newel posts and turned balusters.