Cogan Cottage

Cogan Cottage is a house and barn combined in one structure, dating from the 17th century. The house is clad in corrugated iron, while the barn is weatherboarded, both under a corrugated tin roof. The building is one storey with an attic, featuring a wide, front-facing dormer gable. The rear of the structure has been partially rebuilt using concrete blocks. A red brick chimney stack is located opposite the entrance, which has a planked front door. The barn includes two planked doors and a metal gate at the end bay, with no additional openings. The house has small pane iron casement windows in the dormer and on the ground floor below, along with a wooden casement window on the right-hand side and three more in the rear range. The west gable features a modern window in the attic.

The building has a four-bay cruck-framed range with a box-framed byre to the east. Inside, the house contains a subdivided hall and two inner rooms. The kitchen is now situated in the east bay of the hall, which includes an inserted masonry stack and a cobbled stone floor, possibly part of the original cross passage. The front door is positioned in front of the stack, and a modern staircase is located behind it, likely replacing an earlier staircase. A 17th-century moulded timber-framed partition separates the hall. A doorway leads into the west bay, which features a central, deeply chamfered spine beam without stops. Although the fireplace is modern, the original fireplace lintel has been retained. Two original planked doors in a well-preserved box-framed partition provide access to the inner rooms. The base of a cruck is visible in the northern inner room, and two additional crucks remain, one between the kitchen and the barn (formerly the outer room) and another between the barn and the byre. The latter is the best preserved and formed the original east gable end of the house, consisting of cruck blades, a tie beam, a collar beam, and a central vertical strut, with box framing below and the lower part boarded. The cruck between the kitchen and the barn has vertical struts above the tie beam, while the sill beam is visible in the kitchen. The east gable end of the byre is box framed, featuring a cobbled floor and a loft.