The Cottage

The Cottage is a detached cottage dating from the 17th century, which has been modified. It is constructed from local stone rubble that is roughly cut and squared, with Ham stone dressings. The cottage features a thatched roof with a stepped coped gable on the west side and a half-hipped roof on the east side, along with a brick chimney stack.

This single-storey building has an attic and consists of a single bay. On the ground floor, there is a 4-light ovolo-mould mullioned window set in a wave-mould recess with a label. Above this window, there is a 3-light horizontal-bar casement window located in a swept dormer. To the lower right, there is a 20th-century door set in an earlier frame, positioned in a plain opening under a timber lintel, which is protected by a late 20th-century timber porch that is glazed and thatched. In the west gable, there is an additional 2-light mullioned window with a label.

Attached to the east gable is a late 20th-century garage with metal doors and thatched coping on the front wall, which is not of special interest. The interior has not been seen, but it is reported to have a single-room plan measuring about 6 meters square. Inside, there are chamfered beams with transitional stops between step/runout and scroll. The 18th-century stone fireplace surround features a beaded false 3-centre arch and an architrave surround set into an earlier opening, along with an 18th-century cupboard to the south. The southeast stair is likely located on the site of the original stair. On the first floor, there is another fireplace with a cambered lintel that has incised spandrils, as well as ovolo and hollow chamfer moulding, and a fragment of plaster decoration in the form of a fleur-de-lys. The roof contains one collar-beam truss that is blocked in, and there is no apparent wall plate.