Bench Mark Cottage

Bench Mark Cottage is a house that dates back to the mid-17th century, with alterations made in the mid-20th century. It features a timber frame with painted brick nogging, and the northern gable end has been rebuilt in rendered brick. The roof is covered with slate and 20th-century machine tiles. The framing consists of small square and rectangular panels, with three panels extending from the sole plate to the former wall plate. The eaves were raised by one panel's height during the mid-20th century.

The house has a baffle-entry plan with two framed bays and stands two storeys tall. It has a central brick ridge stack and a four-window front, which includes 20th-century one-, two-, and three-light wooden casements, as well as a ground-floor 19th-century cast-iron lozenge-pattern window. There is a boarded door located between the first and second windows from the left, which is sheltered by a 19th-century gabled timber-framed porch.

On the right-hand gable end, the first floor is jettied and supported by hewn brackets. The interior features pairs of chamfered beams with ogee stops, chamfered wall plates on the ground floor, and a large open fireplace with an ogee-stopped chamfered wooden lintel. Originally, the house extended one bay further to the north. The owner, as of May 1986, has a photograph showing the house when it was three cottages before the third bay was demolished and the eaves were raised.