The Thatched Cottage

The Thatched Cottage is a cottage, formerly a row of three, dating from the early 19th century and modified over time. It is constructed from local stone that is cut and squared, with the east end rendered. The building features a thatched roof with half hipped gables and octagonal brick chimney stacks with mitred angles. It is two storeys high and has four bays. The windows are casements with leaded lights; bay 1 has a four-light window below and a three-light window above, both with segmental arched heads. Bay 2 features a flat-roofed bay window with a 1+2+1 light configuration below and a two-light casement with gauged brickwork flat arch above. There is a 20th-century boarded door in a recess spanned by a timber lintel in bay 3, above which is a two-light window set into the rendering. Bay 4 has four-light casements, with the lower window having toplights. There is a thatched single-storey extension with an attic on the west gable, and the attic window is an early 19th-century leaded casement. The interior has not been seen. Newtown, where the cottage is located, is a planned layout from around 1818, originally consisting of about 80 thatched cottages, and it is said to have originated as a vote-catching scheme.