Beam Cottage

Beam Cottage is a late 17th-century cottage with later additions and alterations. It has a timber frame with painted brick infill and a straw thatch roof that is half-hipped to the left, rebuilt after a fire around 1985. The basic layout is an L-shape, consisting of the original two-bay cottage extended to the left in the early 18th century, along with a shorter range to the rear on the right. The building has one storey and an attic. The framing features a mixture of square and rectangular panels, with two panels from the cill to the wall-plate and long straight braces in the original part, and three square and rectangular panels in the early 18th-century addition. It has collar and tie beam end trusses. The ground floor includes four 20th-century latticed casements, and there are three dormers with raking eaves. The entrance is through a 20th-century plank door located in a single-storey, hip-roofed timber-framed addition attached to the right gable end. A 20th-century red brick ridge stack is positioned to the left of centre, likely where a former end stack was located. The cottage was formerly known as Canary Cottage.