Spindle Cottage

Spindle Cottage is a house located in Berrington, likely dating from the 15th century, with alterations and an addition made in the late 19th century. It features a timber frame built using cruck construction, with painted brick nogging and brick additions, topped by a plain tile roof. The building has a baffle-entry plan consisting of two framed bays, representing a fragment of a former hall house. It is one storey and attic with two storeys overall. The central brick ridge stack is complemented by two gabled semi-dormers at the rear, each containing two-light casements.

The framing is light and has undergone significant alterations, likely in the 18th and 19th centuries. The front has two windows; on the first floor, there are two 20th-century three-light casements, while the ground floor features a late 19th-century wooden cross-casement on the left and a three-light wooden casement on the right. A half-glazed door is positioned just off-centre to the left.

Inside, there are chamfered beams with plain and ogee stops, and a chamfered former wall-plate can be seen in the left-hand ground-floor room. An angle brace and a sawn-off moulded bressumer in the first-floor room at the rear may indicate the location of a former bracketed dormer or another external feature. The eaves have been raised, and the roof has been rebuilt, likely in the 18th or 19th century. The exposed cruck truss is thought to have been the central truss of a two-bay open hall, with the left-hand bay serving as the lower end. The entrance was likely to the right of the current one, as suggested by a probable blocked doorway, and the stack is believed to be a late 16th or 17th-century addition.