Woodseats is a nice area, the main road has plenty of buses into town although I do not know of any cottage-like houses nearby as the area is quite busy. I would perhaps consider checking out the chancet wood area or further towards beauchief. The walks are all excellent around graves park/chancet wood/beauchief golf course and feature on the Sheffield round walk. I'm not so well versed on pubs in the area so can't comment ,but hope I helped.