Egmont Cottage

Detached house, built c. 1840, comprising three-bay single-storey front block, one-bay two-storey link block and three-bay two-storey rear block forming overall L-plan arrangement. Porch projection to middle of façade of front block, and canted bay east side of to link block. Two-bay flat-roof projection to rear, built c.1970. Hipped slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks having some terracotta chimney pots. Coursed limestone rubble walls to front block, rendered elsewhere, and with cut-stone walls to porch. Square-headed window openings having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows, except for one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to canted bay and some replacement uPVC and timber windows to rear elevations and to porch. Square-headed door opening to porch and to south elevation of rear block, having timber panelled doors with overlights, having render steps to porch. Round-headed original door opening to interior of porch having timber panelled door with round-headed overlight. Outbuildings to south-west. One building is being nine-bay single-storey with loft stable block with hipped slate roof, coursed limestone rubble walls, semi-circular window openings to loft having replacement timber windows, ground floor having square-headed replacement timber windows and some two-over-two pane, three-over-three pane and two-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, square-headed timber battened half-doors, and central elliptical-headed carriage entrance having tooled sandstone voussoirs and timber battened double-leaf doors with painted-iron commission plaque over. Pitching door to one end of façade. Six-bay single-storey building to north, having pitched slate roof, coursed limestone and sandstone rubble walls, three infilled arches with tooled sandstone voussoirs, and inserted square-headed door and window openings, latter with brick jambs, having timber battened doors and timber windows. Coursed rubble boundary walls to road with square-plan piers with wrought-iron vehicular gates and wrought-iron pedestrian gate.

This house retains the form and features of a typical mid-nineteenth-century building, with terracotta chimney pots, timber sliding sash windows and round-headed door opening inside the recent porch extension. It is located on a site set back from the road and forms a pleasing group with the associated outbuildings. Egmont Cottage is one of a number of houses of similar style and size in the area which are believed to have housed retainers of the Egmont estates.