The Ramparts

The Ramparts is a house that was formerly two cottages. It is constructed from coursed squared stone in large blocks and features a slate roof with a central tall brick chimney stack. The building has two storeys and two bays, with each floor containing two flat-headed windows. These windows have sandstone ashlar thin raised surrounds that are chamfered on the inner edges. The original Tudor style two-light mullioned windows, which had sunk spandrels and four-centred heads to the lights, were replaced with 20th-century glazing in 1983. The front of the building has no doors and a windowless stone wall on the right end. At the rear, there are two pairs of small-paned casements with 20th-century glazing that replaced multi-paned lights, situated above a lean-to with stone walls and a slate roof. The left end of the building is chamfered and features a 20th-century door. There is a modern porch to the right, positioned at an angle to a southwest outbuilding. Inside, the ground floor rooms on the northeast side each have an exposed square ceiling beam running on a northwest-southeast axis, with joists.