Carters Cottage And Shepherds Cottage

Carters Cottage and Shepherds Cottage are a pair of cottages that were originally a single house, dated 1711, and possibly incorporating earlier fragments. They were modified in the 19th century. The cottages are built from local stone rubble with Ham stone ashlar dressings and feature a double Roman clay tiled roof. Carters Cottage has a stepped coped gable on the south side, while the north side has a plain gable and both cottages have brick chimney stacks.

The buildings are two storeys high with four bays. The ground floor has 4-light hollow-chamfered mullioned windows set in chamfered recesses with labels, some equipped with internal ferramenta and iron-framed opening lights. Above, there are 19th-century horizontal-bar casement windows, which are 3-light except for bay 3, which is 2-light. There are plain boarded doorways under timber lintels to the left of bays 1 and 4, and a datestone is located between the upper and lower windows of bay 2. A straight joint is visible between bays 3 and 4. The south gable is plain, while the north gable has casement windows. There is also a lean-to extension at the rear of Shepherds Cottage.

The interior of Shepherds Cottage has not been seen, but Carters Cottage shows signs of a former through passage plan, with bay 3 possibly serving as the parlour and bay 4 as a later extension. The roof was raised and rebuilt in the 19th century. Notable interior features in Carters Cottage include a 4-panel kitchen ceiling with chamfered scroll-stop beams and a 6-panel ceiling in the hall. There are fragments of an early 18th-century fireplace and a cambered-arched doorway, along with a plank and muntin partition in the hall that has a blocked cambered-arched doorway and a multiple-mould head beam that is integral with the ceiling construction. The floors are made of stone flags.