Doctor'S Cottages

Doctor's Cottages is a pair of houses, now functioning as a single residence, dating from the 17th century. The building is timber-framed, featuring partly painted brick infill panels and partly render on lath infill panels, with stone rubble walls at the rear and sides. It has a plain-tile roof and a prominent projecting stone stack with tiled offsets, although the upper shafts are missing. The structure consists of a two-bay range with gable additions at both the front and back, along with a two-bay cross wing.

The exterior is single storey with an attic. The front features a two-bay range with a gable to the right and a cross-wing gable to the left, along with a large stone stack on the extreme left. The square framing includes large lower panels that are significantly underbuilt with brick and stone. Above, there are small rectangular upper panels covered by a continuous tiled pentice roof supported by brackets. The gable trusses have four vertical struts and a collar with raking struts above. A four-light ovolo-moulded mullion window is framed within the square framing, alongside two simple mullion windows set in the brick underbuilding and two plain 19th-century boarded doors. A casement window is inset into the main range gable framing, with a three-light casement window to the left gable. The windows originally had lattice-leaded lights, which are now in various states of disrepair.

On the right return, there is a rebuilt stone rubble gable end featuring two ground-floor and one attic window opening. The left return is covered by the stone stack. The rear has stone rubble at the ground floor with doorway and window openings. To the left, a gable projects from the main range, supported by twin vertical struts and a collar. To the right, the cross-wing gable also has twin vertical struts with raking struts over the collar, with a window opening framed between the struts.

Inside, the main range features an internal truss partition with square framing, chamfered bridging beams with ogee stops, and a four-centred arched door head at the ground floor. The internal trusses consist of four vertical struts below a collar, with one truss having door posts that interrupt the tie beam. The roof is a single trenched-purlin design. The cross wing has a chamfered bridging beam with simple stops and an internal truss of four struts, along with a double trenched-purlin roof.