Town'S End Cottage

Town's End Cottage is a cottage dating from the early 17th century, which was re-modelled and extended in the mid-19th century. It is timber-framed with painted brick infill and has purplish brown brick additions. The roof is covered with machine tiles featuring fishscale bands and ornamental cresting, and the gables have fretted bargeboards and pointed finials. The original layout is T-shaped with a gable that projects to the front, and there is a single-storey mid-19th century addition at the rear. The cottage has one storey and an attic. The framing includes square and rectangular panels, with two panels extending from the cill to the wall-plate, short straight tension braces, jowled wall posts, and V-struts from the collar to the left gable end. The front gable features three square panels and V-struts from the collar. The mid-19th century windows consist of cast-iron patterned casements, with one on each side of the front gable and a patterned casement above the ledged door. To the left of the front gable, there is a gabled eaves dormer with a fretted bargeboard and pointed finial. The left gable end has an integral yellow brick stack with twin diamond shafts, and the right gable end has a similar external stack that incorporates part of an earlier stack. The interior has not been inspected but is likely to be of interest.