The Cottages

The Cottages comprise a row of three cottages, which originated as a single house, and were subsequently extended. The core of the building dates to the mid-17th century, with further extensions added around the 18th and early 19th centuries. The cottages are constructed from stone rubble, with a rendered front, and feature clay double-Roman tile and pantile roofs with gabled ends. Stone axial and gable-end stacks have brick caps.

The original house, number 2, has a two-room plan with a hall/kitchen on the right, containing a large fireplace with chamfered stone jambs with diagonal stops and a timber bressumer. A newel staircase is situated to the side of the fireplace, and a service room/parlour lies to the left. A 1-room plan kitchen wing was later added to the rear, and a separate 1-room plan cottage (number 1) was added to the south-east end, alongside an outbuilding. The outbuilding was subsequently converted into a third cottage (number 3), which is now incorporated into house number 2.

The south-west front has an asymmetrical appearance with six windows, featuring late 19th and 20th-century 2- and 3-light casements. There are three doorways with plank doors. The rear (north-east) elevation has a gable-ended wing to the left of centre and rear outshuts with lean-to roofs.

Inside number 2, the hall has a plastered framed ceiling. The parlour has an arched china cupboard with a dentilled cornice and a fireplace with a simple wooden chimneypiece. The roof structure exhibits trusses with lapped and pegged collars, tenoned purlins, a diagonal ridgepiece, and common-rafter couples. Cottages 1 and 2 both retain 18th and early 19th-century joinery, including 2- and 4-panel doors and planked window seats.

This is a largely intact row of cottages, with a well-preserved interior within the original 17th-century house. It possesses group value due to its historic development.