Church Cottage and Lychgate Cottage

Church Cottage and Lychgate Cottage are two dwellings, originally a school and master’s house. The core of the building dates back to the early 17th century, with significant extensions and alterations in the early 18th century, 1821, and the later 19th century. The construction is primarily timber-framed with red brick nogging and a plain tile gable roof; there is also brickwork with a plain tile hipped roof and deep eaves. Brick gable-end and axial stacks are present.

The original school and master's house formed a timber-framed west range set at a right angle to the road. In the early 18th century, a brick extension was added to the rear (east). In 1821, the early 18th-century wing was rebuilt, creating a two-storey structure with a kitchen and schoolroom on the ground floor and two rooms above, facing north. Later in the 19th century, around 1882, the school was converted into cottages and a shop; a single-storey cross-wing was built at the east end, and a two-storey outshut was built to the rear (south). The three cottages are now combined into two dwellings.

The west-facing front has a three-window range with largely 20th-century casements. A 20th-century glazed door is on the right, with a brick extension on the left (north). The north front features symmetrical two-storey two-window range at the centre, with 19th-century three-light casements with glazing bars and sandstone lintels and cills (the ground floor right-hand casement has been replaced); a blocked centre doorway is also present, alongside doorways with flush-panel doors to the left and right. Gabled cross-wings are on the left and right, the left wing featuring a 19th-century three-light casement. The rear (south) has a two-storey outshut with a late 20th-century timber balcony, an early 18th-century brick wall on the left, and the timber-frame west range to the left of that.

The right (south) room of the original west range retains a chamfered cross-beam, a gable-end fireplace with a large timber bressumer, exposed wall framing. Lychgate Cottage has a number of 19th-century panelled and ledged doors and a wide staircase.

The school was endowed in 1607 and 1719, extended in 1821, and replaced by a Board school in 1882, moving to a site to the south-southeast. It then became cottages and a shop.