The Thatched House

The Thatched House is a cottage located on the Shuttleworth Estate, dating from the early 19th century and possibly enclosing an earlier structure. It is designed in the cottage ornee style, featuring colourwashed roughcast over a timber frame and a thatched roof. The building has a two-room plan, is one storey high with attics, and includes two canted bay windows on the ground floor. These bay windows have hexagonal leading, twigwork decoration on the sills and cornices, and semi-pyramidal roofs.

In the attic, there are two eyebrow dormers with semi-circular casements that feature radiating glazing bars. The central doorway is now blocked, and there is a central stuccoed ridge stack adorned with spiralling moulded decoration. The eaves of both the front and rear elevations are enhanced by highly decorated pierced bargeboards that continue around the dormer eaves. Each gable end features an attic window with three pointed-arched leaded lights beneath a square head, which is topped with a square moulded label. Below each attic window, there is a doorway set within a rustic open porch that has a gabled thatched hood.