The Old Cottage

The Old Cottage is a two-storey end entry house built from roughly coursed sandstone rubble and topped with a Bridgewater tile roof. The building features a first-floor hall that now includes the end unit of the main range. On the courtyard elevation, there is a modern doorway and two modern windows on the ground floor, along with a cross-framed casement window above. The gable wall displays a corbelled stack for the first-floor hearth, flanked by a small original window on the left and a small casement on the right. The steeply pitched roof extends as a cat-slide onto a lean-to on the right, which has a small 2-light casement at its end. The stack has been truncated just above the ridge. The rear elevation includes modern windows and doors in the lean-to, a tall modern stone stack, and a tiny gable window in the gable of the main range, similar to the one at Ifton Hill House.

Notable features include the Tudor arch stone doorway with an oak lintel from the original end entry, which now connects with the main range. The kitchen fireplace is blocked, and the firestair remains beside it but has been altered. The upper room also has a blocked fireplace. The stair continues to the attic, where a principal rafter roof with collars and two tiers of purlins can be seen in both directions.