Rectory Cottage

Rectory Cottage is a one-and-a-half storey former farmhouse that includes an attached barn at the downhill end, which has been incorporated into the house. It is built from random local sandstone rubble and features a steeply pitched roof made of Welsh slate. The main front of the house may have originally been symmetrical before the barn was added, which altered the lower end. There is a modern broad opening off-centre that replaces the cart doors, filled with double part glazed doors and two 3-paned overlights that extend to the eaves. To the left in the barn wall, there is a modern plank door with a timber lintel. To the right, there are three 2-light casements, the last of which is located in the original doorway. Above these is a small half dormer with a fourth casement. The roof is plain and steeply pitched, featuring two Velux rooflights and a rebuilt stone stack on the right gable.

The uphill gable end has a distinctive and very early 2-light timber window with chamfered triangular heads, which lights the stairs, along with a small modern window in the gable above. At the rear, there is a 3-light ground floor window, an added rear wing with modern casements, a plain door, and a small half dormer. The former barn has six triangular vents on the downhill gable end, which also has a battered base.

Originally, the entrance led into a lobby against the chimney at the uphill end, but this opening has been converted into a window. The beams inside mostly have narrow chamfers with run-out stops, and the ground floor was formerly partitioned. There is a broad fireplace with rubble jambs and a chamfered timber bressummer; to the left of this is a broad winding stair with stone treads. The house features a steeply-pitched upper cruck truss with a tenoned collar and three tiers of through purlins. The barn section, now the kitchen end, has a lower floor and a truss with a lapped collar and a removed tie-beam. There is a half-timbered partition of thin scantling between the house and the barn, which continues through both floors.