Frankwell Cottage

Modern renovation. Long 2-storey roughcast front of 2 + 1 - windows; timber band between 1st and ground floors and painted rubble base with pegged weatherboarding over. Slate roof with wide boarded eaves and large red brick chimney stack oposite the entry. 12-pane sash windows with oak cills and flush frames - C19 glazing in C18 openings. Broad C19 doorcase to right of centre with later gabled hood and cusped bargeboards carried on fluted brackets. Contained within are the twin doorways of Frankwell House and Frankwell Cottage; timber architraves, boarded doors with brasswork.

Cat slide roof to rear. Right gable end has 2 small windows and a further window inserted into a possible bread-oven projection. Asbestos tile hung left gable end and roof to modern lean-to on site of former barn in which a woollen cleaning process was operated. Modern alterations at rear with timber frame exposed at top and bricked recess to right.

The interior of the main house retains oak beams, some feather stop chamfered, and 6-panel doors. The Oak staircase rising from the main room has swept up handrail but the balustrade has been removed. The dining room to left reflects the Georgian alterations with twin-well ceiling and cornicing. The square panelling of the timber-frame is exposed on left end wall. A-frame roof trusses with 2 rounded purlins to each pitch; wattle and daub partitions within attic. There is an inner connecting door with the cottage which retains a cobbled floor, boarded doors and tightly winding narrow staircase.