Vale View Cottages

Vale View Cottages is a pair of cottages dating from the early 17th century, with later alterations and additions. They are thought to have originated as a longhouse derivative. The cottages are constructed of brick in English Garden Wall Bond, with some timber elements, and originally had thatched roofs, now covered by asbestos-cement sheets.

The buildings are single-storey with an attic and consist of three bays. The original cottage, located to the north-east, is only one bay wide. Both cottages feature boarded doors at the front and rear, and flush casements, with the north-east cottage having multiple glazing at both ends. The north-east gable reveals an exposed truss with "V" struts. At the rear, both corner posts of the original cottage remain, along with the front and rear wall-plates, which are morticed for small framing. The first-floor windows are located in the south-west gable and in raking dormers, and there are gable barge boards.

The south-west cottage has a gable-end stack, while the north-east cottage has a party wall stack that would have originally been positioned at its south-west gable.

Inside, the north-east cottage features a baffle entry leading into a single ground floor room, with a winder staircase rising to the left of the front door against the stack. There is a beam over a wide and deep fireplace and a single chamfered ceiling beam. In the attic, there is a "V" strutted truss similar to the gable truss, along with thatched rafters and exposed purlins with wind braces, cleft thatch, and rafters.

The south-west cottage shows evidence of more alterations and is divided into rooms, but retains exposed beams, a cottage staircase, boarded doors, and cleft thatch rafters. The use of primitive tree purlins suggests it may have had an agricultural use or been constructed in the later 17th century.