Cross Cottages

Cross Cottages is a cottage that has been divided, likely dating from the 16th century but refronted and re-roofed in the early 19th century. The building features roughcast over random rubble and has a shallow pitched slate roof with overhanging eaves, a soffit board, paired decorative brackets, and brick stacks at the gable ends and centre right. The plan suggests it was probably a three-cell structure with a cross passage, possibly originally an open hall house. It is two storeys high with a façade of two:two:four bays, all featuring three-light early 19th-century leaded iron casements, although the second, fourth, sixth, and eighth bays on the first floor are blocked. There are entrances in the second bay on the left and the third bay on the right, both with arched, moulded surrounds, Adam-style fanlights, and early 19th-century doors that have inserted glazed panels. The interior has not been viewed, but No.1 (on the right) is said to contain one pair of jointed cruck trusses beneath the later roof.