Sychnant Cottage

Sychnant Cottage is a 17th-century farmhouse that has been converted from an attached farm building. The exterior is pebbledashed with a slate roof and features a 'T'-shaped plan, consisting of a three-bay main range with the main stack located at the lower end, and a rear range of three bays that likely dates from the same period, which contains the service rooms now used as a kitchen.

There is a central boarded door leading to a cross passage, with a parlour at the uphill end that is heated by a gable stack featuring two diagonally set stone flues. A window with a stone drip is positioned beside the stack. The building includes three-light windows with chamfered lintels and cut stops, as well as 19th-century raised and gabled dormers fitted with four-pane sash windows. The rear wing has timber casement windows with drip stone hoods and a 19th-century door leading to the yard.

Originally a three-bay cowhouse, Sychnant Cottage has a doorway with a very heavy frame and a boarded door, which has recent cover strips, set against the gable of the house, indicating its longhouse origins. There is an added gable stack and a lean-to toilet. At the time of inspection in July 1995, the lower gable stack had not been opened up but was reported to be large, with an internal oven and a blocked door leading into the former cowhouse. The parlour features chamfered cross beams.