Scow Cottage And Attached Outbuilding And Garden Wall

This is a house, dated 1619, with alterations from the late 17th century and restoration in the 20th century. It is constructed of coursed squared gritstone with a graduated stone slate roof. The house is two storeys high, with two bays, and features a central, single-storey gabled open porch. The porch has an incised, single-piece segmental arch to the doorcase, supported by moulded imposts, and a ball finial to the gable. The inner door has four panels and a shallow triangular doorhead with a lintel inscribed "IAP 1619". The windows are recessed and chamfered mullion windows. To the left of the porch is a single-light window on the ground floor, and a five-light window to the left of the porch, where one light has been blocked. To the right of the porch is a single-light window. The first floor has five-light windows to the left and right, which are shorter than the ground floor windows, and set under deep eaves. There are bulbous kneelers, gable copings, and end stacks, with the left-hand stack corniced and the right-hand stack reduced.

Inside, the main room to the right of the entrance has a fireplace with two phases of construction. A wooden bressumer beam is inscribed "(I)668" and is supported by chamfered stone jambs with the inscription "(A)MP". A probable base of stone stairs is visible to the right of the fireplace, and there is an ogee head to the oven entrance. The parlour fireplace on the ground floor has a cambered arch and a syma-moulded chamfer. Slots and holes are visible on the inner faces of the jambs to both ground-floor windows, suggesting that horizontal bars were once fitted. A spine beam supports the upper floor. A stone fireplace on the first floor, right, has a " A P " plaque with an inscription "M". The house is significant as it retains a dated stone chimney from 1668, which provided heated rooms on both the ground and first floors.

A garden wall, approximately 3 metres high to the left of the house, encloses the front garden. This wall is pierced by a gate with a lintel, likely imitation, carved with the date 1619. The wall steps down to approximately 1.25 metres high as it curves to define the front garden, and has chamfered coping stones. An outbuilding, set at a right angle to the right, probably dates from the late 18th century, reusing masonry from the 17th century. It is a one-storey structure with four bays, featuring roll moulding to the door bays 2 and 4, which have tie-stone jambs. Recessed and chamfered windows are present; a two-light window in the first bay and a four-light window in the third. It has gable copings and a reduced stack to the left; the interior was not inspected.