Catherton Cottage

Catherton Cottage is a house, originally two dwellings, dating to the late 14th or early 15th century, with later restorations and rebuilding. The construction is primarily painted stone rubble, with some timber framing and painted brick infill. The roof is covered in plain tiles. The building features a central stone stack with an axial brick ridge shaft, and a brick gable end stack to the south. It comprises a four-bay range, with an additional half-bay and end extensions.

The west side of the cottage has painted stone rubble to the right-hand half, featuring a two-storey, two-window range with 20th-century casements. A 20th-century ground-floor bay window is located on the left. The left half is covered by stone rubble gabled and lean-to extensions. On the east side, a 3-light casement is flanked by two-light casements, with a gabled dormer to the right. Vestigial timber framing is visible in the left bay, showcasing posts and a swept tension brace with a raised truncated part-framed gable-end above the wall plate. A projecting bread oven is centered within the stone-walled section. The north gable end has two 2-light casements at ground level, and a 2-light casement with a single casement set within a vertically boarded gable-end at attic level. The south gable end is partly obscured by a 20th-century single-storey stone gabled wing.

The interior contains a single purlin roof. A full cruck truss is located to the south, featuring a lapped ridge saddle, a restored tie beam, and a diagonally-set ridge. A full central cruck truss is present with an arch-braced collar; all arrises are chamfered with plain cut stops. Twin raking struts are positioned over the collar and ridge saddle, and the surrounding sections are cusped to form trefoils flanking a quatrefoil. This truss originally spanned a one-and-a-half bay medieval open hall. A 17th-century stone stack has been inserted into the half-bay of the former hall, incorporating coursed rubble walls, a 19th-century bread oven to the east, and a cambered mantelbeam with ovolo moulding. A deep chamfered inserted floor has rounded chamfered stops. Three trusses are visible in the north bays, with cambered tie beams and collars evident on the inner truss; an inserted central truss demonstrates a collar and twin raking struts over, along with twin supporting posts below. The north gable-end truss includes a tie beam, twin vertical struts, a collar with twin raking struts over, and formerly spanned a medieval hall.