3 Pump Lane

This is an 18th-century cottage with a small attached barn, though it may have earlier origins.

The cottage is built of chalk rubble set on cobblestone foundations, largely hidden by 20th-century render. It has a pantile roof, with a roof truss incorporating at least one, and possibly up to three, cruck blades. Brick stacks project from the ends of the building.

The cottage was originally planned with a central entrance leading directly into the southwestern room, which features a former pantry at the rear, now used as a bathroom. The main room is the northeastern ground-floor room, originally having a gable entry into the attached barn; this entry is now a porch providing access to the back door. A staircase leading to two attic rooms is partitioned off from the rear of the main room.

The cottage has two bays and a single storey with an attic, with end stacks. To the northeast gable is a small attached barn.

The street-facing elevation has a 20th-century part-glazed front door offset to the right (southwest), with a square single-light window alongside. A three-sash window is central to the left bay, with a central horizontal sliding sash flanked by fixed sashes, each with horizontal glazing bars. The barn features a small, square, four-light window with an external timber shutter.

The garden elevation has two upper windows tucked under the eaves and a small ground-floor window lighting the former pantry, all with uPVC window frames. The barn has two 20th-century planked doors; the left-hand door serves as the cottage’s back door, and a single small window is also present.

The southwestern room retains a 19th-century cast iron fireplace and surround. A stud partition likely dating to the early 20th century separates this room from the entrance corridor. The main room is divided from the entrance by a thin brick wall. It has a mid-20th-century tiled fireplace flanked by wall cupboards; the cupboard to the left retains simple 18th-century style joinery with butterfly hinges. A stub of masonry walling acts as a baffle between the fireplace and the rear door in the gable. A door to the staircase is located opposite the rear door and is partitioned off by a timber plank partition. The staircase and rear doors are both in an 18th-century style. The ceiling features exposed roughly hewn floor joists supporting 19th-century style floorboards with roll mouldings.

The upper floor is divided into two rooms by a single roof truss. This includes a tie beam which is a reused cruck blade, and the two principal rafters, largely concealed, are also roughly hewn and possibly further cruck blades. Rough hewn purlins are also present. The door separating the two upper rooms is a plank door with modern hinges.

The barn retains a simple, purlin roof structure of roughly hewn timbers. One corner is partitioned off with 19th-century brickwork to form a porch for the rear door into the cottage.