The Cottage And Grey Eaves

The Cottage and Grey Eaves are two houses from the 17th century that have been altered over time. They feature cruck framing with rendered rubble walls and a slate roof, which has replaced the original thatch, except for part of Grey Eaves, which is covered with asbestos sheets. The buildings are one storey high with an attic.

The Cottage, located on the right, has modern windows with plain reveals: two to the left of the door and one to the right. It also has two gabled attic dormers. Grey Eaves, on the left, includes an earlier section that seems to be built in the same style as the left side of The Cottage and consists of one bay. Its windows also have plain reveals, with a modern ground-floor window and a casement window with glazing bars located above under the eaves, which lights the attic. To the left, there is a two-bay, two-storey addition from the 19th century, featuring a hipped roof on the left and modern windows with plain reveals. The left bay of this addition has a blocked ground-floor doorway. There are chimneys located on the right-hand gable, between the two houses, and to the right of the 19th-century addition to Grey Eaves.

Inside The Cottage, there are two cruck trusses with reused blades, collars, tie beams, and blades joined by yokes below the apex. These trusses are part of the walls that divide the ground floor into three main rooms. The front door opens into the middle room, which likely is not in its original position, as mortise holes in the soffits of the two beams indicate that the room was previously divided by a wall running from front to back, along with a second axial wall. The right-hand room has exposed ceiling joists, with the axial main beam being a modern replacement.