Oak Tree Cottage

Oak Tree Cottage is a house dating from the late 16th century, with alterations and an extension added in the early 19th century. It features rendered and pebble-dashed rubble walls, with exposed timber framing on the south front. Originally thatched, it now has a 20th-century brown tile roof. The house is structured with two cells and a central through-passage, standing two storeys high and comprising three bays, with the central bay being narrower.

The central doorway is framed by a moulded wood architrave, flanked by jamb posts on padstones. To the left of the doorway is a cruciform wooden casement window, and to the right is a wide Yorkshire sash window. The first floor has smaller Yorkshire sash windows. The timbering on the first floor includes a mid-rail, wall-plate, four posts with straight braces, and a close-studded wall. The studs are pegged and jointed to the rail and plate, halved over the braces, and taper off. The left-hand two bays are lower than the right-hand bay, possibly indicating a difference in original floor heights. A ridge stack is located at the junction of the first and second cells.

At the rear, a later-added cell has a parallel roof to the second cell. The first cell features a window with a projecting sill and a half dormer above. The right-hand return has a single Yorkshire sash window, with two additional windows above, one circular and one rectangular. The added cell includes a doorway with a wooden surround and first-floor canted-bay windows.

Inside, much of the original timbering remains, including a former bressumer with stop-chamfers supported at either end by posts on padstones. These posts have jowelled heads and are braced to the wall-plate. On the first floor, the rear wall of the second cell, at the junction with the later addition, has a surviving close-studded wall.

In the 19th century, Oak Tree Cottage served as a tobacconist's shop, and there was a notice above the front door stating, "Here lives Nathaniel Clough A seller of tobacco And very fine snuff." The exposed timber framing is a rare survival in this region.