Badgers Cottage And Attached Outbuildings

Badgers Cottage and its attached outbuildings are a former farmhouse dating from the 18th century or earlier. The building is constructed from locally sourced stone that has been cut and squared, topped with a thatched roof featuring plain gables and stone and brick chimney stacks. The house has two storeys and four bays with irregularly placed windows. It includes two-light cross-glazed casement windows set under timber lintels, with an old boarded door in a heavy frame located between the first and second bays. The upper windows are set into the roof. The farm buildings, which are slightly lower than the house, extend from each gable; the south side features an old stable door along with a modern doorway. Although the interior has not been seen, reports indicate the presence of a large gable fireplace on the south side with a later brick side oven, a hall fireplace flanked by a steep circular stone staircase with a slit window, and a partition made of wattle and daub. The roof frame contains some jointed crucks, and part of it is smoke blackened.