Barnfield Cottage

Barnfield Cottage is a house dating from the 16th century or early 17th century. It is timber-framed with rendered infill and has a plain-tiled roof. The cottage is single-storey with an attic.

The front of the building facing the road features small framing with angle braces. The ground floor has random window placements and a projecting 20th-century lean-to porch on the left. There are two gable dormer casement windows in the attic and a cross-axial stack on the ridge. The roof is gabled on the right side and half-hipped on the left, where the ridge is lower. The right gable end has four by three cells of small framing with angle braces and two replaced casement windows at ground floor level. This gable is made of exposed 19th-century brick.

Inside, the ground floor has ceiling beams with end stops and heavy rafters. The attic's dividing walls feature angle struts and heavy, cambered ties supporting queen struts. The ground floor wall plate is also heavy. An Edwardian staircase with a ramped handrail and spiral-twist balusters was added in the later 20th century. As a largely intact early example of a timber-framed vernacular building with much of its internal architectural detailing preserved, Barnfield Cottage is worthy of listing. Although the later 20th-century extension has caused some loss of fabric, this has been limited, and its position at the rear of the original cottage does not significantly detract from the building's special interest.