Church Cottages

Church Cottages is a house that has been divided into three cottages. It dates from the 15th or early 16th century and has undergone later alterations and additions. The structure is timber framed with brick infill, partly rough-cast and partly replaced with brick. It features a plain tile roof with shaped tile bands, a brick ridge stack, and integral end stacks. The building is aligned northwest to southeast and faces northeast. Originally, it comprised a two-bay open hall (now floored) to the northwest and a single-bay chamber to the southeast, which is also now floored but may have been open to the roof originally. The former entrance passage at the northwest end of the southeast bay is now blocked, creating a lobby-entry.

The building has two storeys and six windows, mostly casements, with an early 19th-century glazing bar sash on the ground floor to the left and an early 19th-century glazing bar casement on the first floor to the left. There are doors to the right, left, and center. Inside, the left-hand cottage has some exposed wall framing on the front wall, featuring closely spaced studs with a chamfered middle rail and herringbone pattern brick nogging. The current first floor is likely an 18th-century insertion. The wall posts at the bay divisions are heavily jowelled, and the roof trusses in the former hall are queen strut type with straight windbraces, showing signs of smoke blackening.