The Cottage

The Cottage is a house dating from the mid-16th century, with a porch dated 1546 and later additions from the mid-17th century. It features a timber frame with painted brick nogging set on a roughly dressed red sandstone plinth, topped with 20th-century machine tile roofs. The framing consists of square panels, with three and four panels from the wall plate to the ground plate, and corner braces.

The structure includes a porch with closely spaced studs and middle rails, a 16th-century hall range made up of two framed bays, and a 17th-century projecting gabled cross wing to the right, also consisting of two framed bays. The house has one storey and an attic over a basement, with a two-storey porch. There is a 19th-century external brick end stack to the right of the hall range featuring four circular shafts, and a 19th-century external lateral brick stack at the rear with two circular shafts.

To the left, there is an off-centre raking semi-dormer, which was altered in the mid-20th century. The front has a 3:1:2 window arrangement, with 20th-century two- and three-light wooden casements and stepped wooden cills. The timber-framed gabled porch has a jetted first floor supported by shaped brackets and features a moulded bressumer dated 1546, along with a jettied gable and parallel diagonal framing. The porch has a 20th-century nail-studded boarded door.

Inside, the collar and tie-beam end trusses are supported by queen struts and V-struts, and there is one post at the rear of the hall range with a scotch. A timber-framed and brick lean-to is located at the rear, which includes a six-panelled door. The interior was not inspected, but chamfered spine beams were noted in the cross wing, and the owner reported some panelling and a winder stair in April 1986.