Lower Cottage
Lower Cottage is shows below the stone staircase. It is a two bedroom flat with large living room, coal fire and small kitchen. The entrance used to be in the main courtyard through one of the now living room windows. When the extension was built there was no access to this part of the building at all as shown on the postcard image to the right.
It is unknown what the building was used for prior to it being converted into the two cottages. It is more than likely it was used for storage or maybe stables for the many horses the estate used in the previous centuries.
Lower cottage never had an indoor toilet when it was converted so the main bedroom was much bigger and the toilet was located in the end shed. I would guess that baths would have been taken in a makeshift bath in the flat and hot water from the wash house boiler used.
Roughly in the 1960s the indoor bathroom/toilet was added thus making the bedroom smaller and making the outdoor one redundent.
It is unknown what the building was used for prior to it being converted into the two cottages. It is more than likely it was used for storage or maybe stables for the many horses the estate used in the previous centuries.
Lower cottage never had an indoor toilet when it was converted so the main bedroom was much bigger and the toilet was located in the end shed. I would guess that baths would have been taken in a makeshift bath in the flat and hot water from the wash house boiler used.
Roughly in the 1960s the indoor bathroom/toilet was added thus making the bedroom smaller and making the outdoor one redundent.
