Marlpits Cottage

Marlpits Cottage is a house dating from the early 17th century, marked on the Ordnance Survey map as Marlpits Farmhouse. It features roughcast walls with a noticeable batter and a pantile roof, along with two brick end stacks, one of which was truncated at the time of re-survey in June 1984. The cottage is designed as a two-unit, cross-passage house, standing two storeys high with three bays. It has two-light casement windows with glazing bars, and the ground floor windows are topped with slated pentices supported by ornamental wooden brackets. There is a small stairlight to the right of the central door opening, which has a plank door and a later corrugated asbestos porch. Inside, there is a large ground floor room that includes a broad fireplace with a wooden bressummer and exposed ceiling beams featuring step and run-out stops. A well for a former winder staircase is present, although the stairs have since been removed.