The Cottage

A cottage of late-C17 or early-C18 date with C20 additions and alterations. The building is timber framed with later brick infill and colour washed and has a reed thatched roof. It has a single storey with an attic. The C20 kitchen and bathroom addition, which is attached to the eastern gable end, is single-storied and rendered. The original cottage has two rooms to each floor with hearths to each gabled end.

EXTERIOR: The northern and southern flank walls have panels of small-framing with angle braces to the upper corners and at either side of the cross wall, which is to east of centre. The two-light casements on both fronts are replacements of C20 date which replicate the pattern of former, C19 windows. There is a plank door at left of centre on the north front, but a doorway at left on the south side was blocked in the late-C20. The two, first floor windows on the southern side are set in eyebrow dormers. There are no windows to the first floor of the north side. The western gable end has a stack of rubble stone with offsets and a brick chimney. The stack at the eastern end is entirely of C20 brick.

INTERIOR: Timber framing shows to the walls on both floors and there are angled braces and jowled corner posts supporting the roof trusses which have ties and angled struts. The ground floor rooms have original joists and heavy, axial spinal beams. The floor has been replaced by a concrete raft. The C20 staircase is of pine. The upper floor has its original purlins and wind braces.