The Cottage

The Cottage is a 17th century farmhouse constructed from whitewashed rubble stone, featuring a whitewashed grouted roof that has been renewed with imitation slates. It has one and a half storeys and an unusual layout with a single central room that has a loft above, flanked by long roof outshuts on each side that provide ground floor service rooms. The gables are raised and cemented.

On the east gable end, there is a loft window with four panes, a pair of casement windows at ground level in the center, and outshut end windows, including a single casement on the left and a pair on the right. The north side has one outshut window to the right, while the south side has a similar window to the left. The west end features one window to the left.

There is a central original gabled porch that has been extended, with a door on the north side and a small window to the right, linking to a low single-storey outbuilding across the west end. An additional structure, possibly an earlier 20th century addition, has a parallel gabled roof and an asbestos slate roof, with large 20th century windows on the south and west ends.

Inside, the central room has a north fireplace and two doors on each side leading into the outshuts, which are now used as bedrooms. There is one 18th century two-panel fielded-panelled door on the right side of the north wall. The flooring is rough boarded, with some oak, and the joists feature a bead-mould. The loft stairs are rough, and the loft contains renewed collar-trusses supporting the roof. The original porch, now internal, has seats on each side and a west doorway with a timber lintel and a ledged main door.