Penkridge Hall Cottage

Penkridge Hall Cottage is a cottage dating from the early to mid-17th century, with alterations and additions from the 18th and late 19th centuries. It features a timber frame with plastered infill panels, and parts have been rebuilt using uncoursed grey sandstone rubble and red brick, topped with a plain tile roof. The cottage consists of two framed bays and has square panels with long straight tension braces. It is one storey high with a gable-lit attic and has an integral brick end stack on the left side. The front has two windows; the left window is a three-light, and the right is a two-light, both are small-paned wooden casements from the 20th century. There is a roughly central 20th-century stable-type door with a side-light to the left. Inside, there is an open fireplace with chamfered stone reveals and a chamfered wooden lintel. The interior also features square-panelled timber framed cross walls, a central collar and tie-beam truss with queen struts and v-struts, and staggered purlins. It has been suggested that this cottage may have originally served as an external kitchen block for the nearby Penkridge Hall.