The Folly

The Folly is a pair of cottages, likely dating from the mid-17th and late 17th centuries, that have been combined into a single house. It is timber-framed with red brick infill and cladding, and has machine tile roofs. The left-hand cottage has two framed bays and a mid-20th century extension to its left and right. The right-hand cottage, probably the earlier of the two, also has two framed bays. The framing is exposed on the right-hand cottage, showing two large rectangular panels from cill to wall-plate, long straight tension braces, and jowled wall posts. The left-hand cottage is clad in 19th-century painted brick. The windows are irregular, with the left-hand part featuring late 20th century casement windows, a contemporary door to the front extension and a late 19th century casement on the right. There are two 20th-century gabled eaves dormers on each side. The right-hand cottage has a 3-light late 20th century French window in the centre and a small late 19th century casement to the right; two late 20th century gabled dormers are visible in the roof slope. A rebuilt ridge stack is located to the left of centre of the left-hand cottage; it was previously an end stack before the 20th-century extension was added to the left. The interior retains much of the timber frame, with square and rectangular panels. A chamfered spine beam is present in the main ground-floor room on the right, and a chamfered cross beam with heavy joists is in the main ground-floor room on the left.