Cantogher Cottage

Detached three-bay single-storey house, built c. 1900, having two-bay return to rear (north-west) with later single-storey flat-roofed extension block to rear of return. Currently disused. Hipped artificial slate roof to main block with rendered chimneystacks and decorative carved timber bargeboards with drop finials. Pitched artificial slate roof to return with red-brick chimneystack and rooflights. Bitumen clad flat roof to later extension. Rendered walls throughout. Square-headed window openings with tooled limestone sills to main block, having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed window openings with rendered sills to rear return and extension, having replacement timber casement windows. Pitched slate roofed canopies surmounting windows to front elevation, having decorative carved timber bargeboards with drop finials. Elliptical-headed door opening to front elevation within timber doorcase with unadorned architrave, timber panelled door with cast-iron door knocker and tooled limestone threshold, flanked by sidelights and surmounted by spoked fanlight. Pitched slate roofed timber canopy over doorway supported on carved timber brackets on tooled limestone corbels, having carved timber bargeboards with drop finials. Square-headed door opening to rear elevation of extension having timber battened door. Located within own grounds, having rendered enclosing wall attached to side (north-east) elevation of additional block with alternating triangular and pointed arch tooled limestone coping stones. Outbuildings with recent farmyard complex to north-west. Former avenue approach to north.

This attractive house remains in good repair with a recent roof. It displays many artistic features most notably its ornate carved timber bargeboards and unusual window and door canopies which greatly enliven the façade. The building utilises high quality materials to add further elegance with tooled limestone corbels to the front door canopy and threshold.