Sundial House And Sundial Cottage

Sundial House and Sundial Cottage are a pair of cottages, likely dating from the 18th century. They are constructed of local stone rubble with an asbestos cement slate roof and brick chimney stacks. The cottages are two storeys and four bays in width; Little Sundial represents the first bay. The first bay has a three-light casement window with a timber lintol, and a part-glazed door sheltered by a pitched metal roof hood. The remaining bays have sixteen-pane sash windows above and four-pane sashes below, all with timber lintols. A part-glazed door is set within a timber lattice porch with a metal bell-hip roof in the third bay. A plaque bearing a painted sundial, probably dating from the 18th century, is situated between the windows in the upper bays three and four. Inside the cottages are four late 18th and early 19th century wall paintings, reportedly created by Napoleonic prisoners of war. These include a depiction of a couple seated at a table being entertained in the entrance hall, a small painting of a military officer on horseback in the alcove of the fireplace in the front right-hand room, and two half-life-size figures of a man and woman in period costume in the front left-hand room.