Shown on the 1840 Tithe Map, the cottage is likely to have been built as a smallholder's cottage in the early C19, although possibly incorporating parts of an earlier building. Its extensive attached outbuildings, albeit that some of them are later C19 additions, and the presence of a set of C19 pigsties adjoining, suggest that its occupants derived their income primarily from agriculture. The attached outbuildings now form part of the domestic accommodation. The building may represent a tiny satellite farm split from a larger parent holding.

Single-storey cottage with outbuildings on same axis but under different roof lines. Constructed of painted, roughly coursed rubblestone on a boulder plinth, the front wall of the house rendered with recently renewed slate roofs. The house has a boarded door, offset to the left and flanked by a single-light, 6-paned casement on left and 12-paned, horizontal sliding sash window on right, both with slate cills; integral rendered end stacks.
Slightly lower and set-back to the left is the cowhouse, which has a boarded door to the left and a window to right. There is a further extension to the left, partly rebuilt with the roof in 2 sections. This has a boarded door on the right and a window in the position of a former doorway to the left. The former stable to the right of the house is also set down and set back, and has a door on the left and a window to the right. there is a 20th century lean-to at the back of the houset. there is a raised cobbled walkway in front of the former cowhouse.

The original house has a boarded ceiling to the right room, which also has an inglenook fireplace with a massive timber lintel. There is a former croglofft above the left room, until recently accesssed by a ladder stair but now with a modern stair. This cuts through the tie beam of a possibly 17th century A-frame truss. The first floor accommodation now extends over the right room and has early 19th century A-frame truss to its centre. The cowhouse (now kitchen) has 3 exposed A-frame trusses.
(Source; CAdw listing database) S Fielding RCAHMW 20-mar-2006