Causeway Cottage and Causeway House

This is a house, originally built in the early 16th century, and now divided into two separate dwellings. It was initially designed as an open-hall house with a cross-passage, with a service area on the left and a parlour on the right. In the 17th century, a floor and a small fireplace with stack were added to the open-hall, converting the house to a lobby-entry plan. At the same time, a service wing was added to the rear. The house is timber-framed, with plaster rendering over the exterior and a steep-pitched pantiled roof. An internal stack is also present.

The house has two storeys, with an attic at the parlour end. There are three 19th-century casement windows, and a smaller casement window to a closet opposite the stack. On the ground floor, there are three windows and two doorways; one is opposite the stack, and the other opens onto the original cross-passage, now framed by an early 19th-century doorcase.

Inside, the original 16th-century open-hall plan with cross-passage is still visible, though the original screen has been removed and the service end has been floored. The original rear entry remains in use. The service end's ceiling joists are flat, unmoulded, and original. Exposed internal partition walls reveal close studding of substantial timber. An original, now blocked, arched doorway exists on the wall separating the service end from the hall. Tie beams are cambered and arch-braced. The roof is of clasped side purlin construction and may be later. In the bedroom above the former open-hall, the ceiling is supported by clamps pegged to the wall frame, indicating a 17th-century insertion. An early 18th-century staircase, featuring a closed string, turned balusters, square newels, and moulded rails, was inserted in the service end of the original house. The 17th-century service wing at the rear is also timber-framed and plaster-rendered, although the gable end wall is brick.