Church Side Griffin Cottage And Attached Barn

This is a house, now divided into two dwellings and a shop, dating from around 1700. It was remodelled in the early 19th century and again in the 20th century. The structure is L-shaped, built of coursed squared ironstone, with a corrugated asbestos tile and corrugated iron roof. Brick stacks are present. The main part of the building is two storeys with an attic and a cellar, and has four bays. The doorway on the right side has an early 19th-century moulded wooden surround with panelled reveals, a flat wooden hood on brackets, and a four-panel door. There are three-light casement windows on either side of the door, each with a wooden lintel. A 20th-century door and wooden lintel mark the doorway on the left side, alongside a two-light transomed casement window with a wooden lintel, and the remnants of a blocked window to its left. On the first floor, there are two-light casement windows with wooden lintels in the left bay and the second bay from the left, with three-light casements with wooden lintels in the other bays. A one-light cellar window with a plain stone surround is visible on the left side. The side elevation has a one-light stone window to the attic, and a three-light casement window with a stone lintel and keyblock on the ground floor, paired with a similar two-light window on the first floor, topped by a blank stone plaque with a moulded hood. An extension to the left, likely a former outbuilding, was remodelled in the 19th and 20th centuries. It’s built from coursed squared ironstone and ironstone rubble, with a corrugated tile roof. The interior of Griffin Cottage was altered in the 20th century and retains chamfered spine beams and an open fireplace, which has been partly rebuilt. Church Side was not inspected. An 18th-century barn extension, now the shop, adjoins the right side of Griffin Cottage. It is constructed of blue and red brick in a chequer pattern, with a corrugated iron roof. It is one storey high and has three bays, with a doorway with a wooden lintel and plank door in the left bay. A 19th-century shop window is to the right, framed by panelled pilasters and a moulded entablature, and a 20th-century sash window is in the right bay. The barn's interior was remodelled in the 20th century with a new roof structure.