Waterloo Cottage

Waterloo Cottage likely began as an early house, probably built into a hillside, with a landscaped yard now at its right end. The original section is constructed from rough limestone rubble with cement pointing and has a steeply pitched roof covered in artificial slate, replacing earlier stone flags; some of the original flags are re-used on the porch roof of a later addition. It is a single-story building with an attic, comprising two rooms. The front has a wide window where the original doorway was located, flanked by smaller, likely original, windows. The rear elevation was previously altered with garage doors, now in-filled and replaced with a smaller French doorway, alongside an early window. A gable end retains significant remnants of an original window: a pegged oak frame with diamond slots for five mullions.

A later house of stone and artificial slate, with UPVC windows, was added, featuring a higher roofline and two storeys. This section also has two rooms, with a gabled porch on the right, which incorporates stone flags from the original roof. A rear wing and flat-roofed extensions are also present.

The original house is now accessed through a doorway inserted into the gable end of the later addition, near the chimney stack. The original door's location is unknown but may have been central along the long wall. The original house now consists of a single room, although slots in a cross-beam suggest a former partition that would have divided the space into a larger living room or hall, and a smaller, unheated room that may have served as a parlour. Four substantial cross-beams run across the room, with two additional beams against the gable end and chimney breast, all featuring stop-chamfered details. A large fireplace has stone jambs and a heavy, chamfered timber lintel. A pegged four-centered arched doorway leads to a curving stone and timber staircase.

The undivided first-floor room is open to the roof with two substantial curved principal or upper cruck trusses, each with collars and saddle at the apex, supporting a short king post that secures the ridge piece.