Built for Susannah Covell Jessup, the wife of Edward Jessup II, sometime before 1805, this house is one of the oldest in Prescott. The cottage is an unpretentious rubble stone stucco building which has been expanded several times over the years. The home would have been built by a local tradesman, perhaps an itinerant builder who went up and down the ribbon of settlement along the St. Lawrence, erecting permanent stone cottages for those settlers who had outgrown their original log homes. The house has one central chimney serving 2 fireplaces on the main floor and a cooking fireplace in the basement. The simple verandah was added in 1878, the date being scribed into one of the beams.