The Cottage

A 2-storey box-framed house with square-panelled framing, slate roof and an external stack to the L (E) gable end, which is largely rebuilt and rendered with brick upper section. In the N front the lower storey has 3 unequally placed 2-light windows, 2 in earlier openings. The main entrance was formerly between the centre and L-hand windows. The upper storey has two 2-light casements, also in original openings. The L gable end is rendered, but retains the exposed tie beam and a narrower roof truss. Set back against the R gable end is a lower 2-storey 2-window C20 addition with the main entrance to the house.

The rear has an outshut on the L side and retains box framing on the R side. Within the framing are 2-light and 1-light windows in both storeys, and a boarded door at the R end.

Originally the house had a 2-unit plan, which is still discernible. The main room, or hall, on the E side has a stop-chamfered joist-beam ceiling, the cross beam on brackets. The gable-end fireplace has a large timber lintel and is offset to the L side, suggestng a former entrance on its R side where the wall has been rebuilt in brick. A timber-framed partition has a Tudor-headed doorway and blocked segmental-headed doorway to former parlour and service room. The roof retains a single closed queen-post truss.