Swiss Cottage

Swiss Cottage is a small single-storey estate worker's cottage designed in a distinctive symmetrical Arts-and-Crafts style. Its compact layout and use of traditional materials suggest the influence of Sir Edwin Lutyens, while the roof and chimney stacks are reminiscent of C F A Voysey's work. The cottage is constructed from snecked sandstone rubble, featuring a black and white close-studded treatment on the upper half of the walls, and has a tiled hipped roof with exceptionally broad eaves, which likely inspired its "Swiss Cottage" name. The eaves are supported at the corners by dragon-post-like timber brackets with capitals over stone pilasters that taper inwards towards the plinth.

In the center, the cottage has a tall canted porch made of freestone, which includes a deeply chamfered Tudor-arched doorway accessed by three steps, a ribbed oak door, and a high parapet with a sunk panel that contains a sundial with a carved sunburst, along with ball finials at the corners. Each corner of the building features a small-paned, two-light timber-frame casement window that wraps around the corner. The side walls each have a massive rubble chimney stack that tapers towards the top, and the right-hand end includes a leaded, multi-paned smoke-window leading to an inglenook. There is a small extension added to the rear in the 1950s.

Inside, there is a deep brick-lined inglenook fireplace, and the plan has been slightly altered since it was recorded in 1991.