Whitehouse Cottage

Whitehouse Cottage is a Grade II* listed building that dates back to the late 16th century. Originally, it was a single-unit house with an entrance on the west end. An extension was added to the east end around 1600, which features a wall painting believed to date from around 1580. The cottage also has a later one-storey extension on the left, a rear outshut from the 17th and 18th centuries, and a porch. The building suffered significant fire damage around 1978.

The cottage is two storeys tall, with rendered rubble walls and a thatched roof, featuring low end chimneys. The south front has a central doorway with a Tudor arch, which is concealed by a thatched entrance porch that includes a stone seat. On the left side, there are two small casement windows at eaves level and two sash windows at ground level. To the right of the porch, the first floor has two square sash windows, with a similar window on the ground floor. The single-storey extension at the west end has a slate roof, with a stack on the left side and a window in the front wall.

Inside, the west ground floor room retains a narrow circular stone stair with a corbelled roof and an original wooden arched doorframe on the north side of the fireplace. The timber ceiling features four plain stop-chamfered beams with half-pyramid and hollow cut stops. The east ground floor room also has a stone stair with a corbelled roof and a segmentally arched wooden doorframe on the north side of the fireplace, along with two chamfered ceiling beams. Next to the stair, there is a wall painting in ochre depicting a female figure in 16th-century dress holding flowers, said to represent Jane Andrew, painted to commemorate her marriage in 1580. The roof was restored after the fire, and the chamfered purlins with ogee stops on the east side of the house serve as the lintels for the windows.