Spring Cottage Including Outbuilding Adjoining West

Spring Cottage, including the adjoining outbuilding to the west, is a house with an attached outbuilding that dates from the 17th century or possibly earlier, with alterations made in the 18th and 19th centuries. The structure is timber-framed and cob, faced and partly rebuilt in painted brick. It features a gable-ended thatched roof with deep eaves that have been reclad in corrugated asbestos sheets, while the outbuilding has a roof made of corrugated iron sheets. There are brick axial and gable end stacks.

The house has a three-room plan, with the centre and left-hand rooms heated by back-to-back fireplaces in an axial stack, and the right-hand (east) room having a gable end stack. The integral outbuilding is open to the roof at the left (west) end. The building is one storey with an attic and has an asymmetrical four-window south front, plus the outbuilding to the left. The ground floor features three large 19th-century four-pane sash windows, and above, there are three small 19th-century two-light attic casements, two of which break the eaves, along with a larger sash window to the left. There are doorways to the left and right; the right is panelled, while the left has a weatherboarded porch and canopy. The outbuilding on the left is weatherboarded and has large double doors. The rear elevation has not been inspected.

Inside, all three ground floor rooms have boxed-in axial beams, which are said to be chamfered. The centre room features a large fireplace with a high-level chamfered timber lintel, covered by a circa 18th-century moulded mantel shelf. The roof is ceiled, with only the side purlins exposed in the chambers. The outbuilding has cob walls and a jowled post at the back, with a brace to the tie-beam and large principals onto which a halved collar is lapped; it was originally a closed truss.