Batch Cottage

Batch Cottage is a cottage dated 1684, constructed from random rubble local stone with quoins and a thatched roof that is hipped to the left. It features a brick stack on the right gable end. The building has a two-cell plan, stands two storeys high, and has two bays. On the first floor, there are two 19th-century wooden casements that flank a central date stone inscribed '1684 GB'. The ground floor has a 20th-century half-glazed door with a sidelight on the left, and a 4-light hollow chamfered Ham stone mullioned window with a moulded architrave and hood mould.

The right return is only lit on the ground floor, with a left-blocked inglenook single light window that retains its architrave and end hood mould, and a left coeval 2-light mullioned window. The right return is also lit only on the ground floor, with a 20th-century window that presumably replaces a former stairlight. There is a later single-storey addition at the rear.

Inside, only the ground floor has been seen, featuring a chamfered lintel to the fireplace with chamfered stone jambs, although the left one may have been rebuilt. There are remains of a plank and muntin screen set against the left jamb, and a bread oven on the right. Only two muntins remain of a former partition to an unheated room at the rear, which now opens into the addition. There is a chamfered lateral beam without stops, and while the stair was not seen, it is believed to be in its original position. Batch Cottage is a very interesting survival of a late 17th-century cottage.