The Old Cottage

Rubble stone; stone tiles laid in diminishing courses, stone end-stacks. One-and-a-half storey SE front has big centre gable. In gable-head is C16 4-light diamond mullion window with 1+1+1+1 panes, wooden lintel and shallow stone sill. Below is a C16 8-light diamond mullion with small rectangular leaded panes; shallow wooden lintel and stone sill. On ground floor (l to r) are: small square staircase window with leaded panes and shallow timber lintel, next a taller 2-light window with leaded panes and a boarded door (both spanned by a single timber lintel), then a plank door with strap hinges and another 2-light window with leaded panes (again spanned by one single lintel). SW gable has small 2-pane ground-floor window with shallow stone sill. NE gable, ground floor; a projecting bread oven and small C20 1+1 casement window with timber lintel. Rear elevation has wall of C16 house (left) with 2-light mullion and C16 4-light diamond mullion. To right is small C20 single-storey gabled extension.

Fine interior with well-preserved C16 detail. Ground floor ceiling beams and joists are chamfered with hollow and fillet (Wern-hir) stops. C16 post and panel partition has similar stops. The original partition doorway (next to entrance door) has been blocked and an enlarged opening created at opposite end of the partition. Fireplace in smaller ‘inner' room has stone lintel with flat head and brick relieving arch above, and bread oven in fireplace recess. Hall fireplace with chamfered stone lintel. To left is boarded door of fireplace stair. On upper floor, the timber-framing of centre partition truss is exposed. Raking V-posts, oak staves above collar, and tie beam cut-through to accommodate Tudor-arched doorway. Three tiers of trenched purlins.