Cricket Field Cottage

Cricket Field Cottage is a house that dates back to the late 15th century and is part of a high-quality timber-framed structure, likely designed with a three-unit plan. In the early 17th century, a local red brick stack was added, replacing the demolished bays of the hall and service rooms to the southeast. An upper floor was inserted in the hall during the same period. The timber frame is plastered, and the roof is covered with plain tiles and pantiles, featuring a hipped design with a gablet on the left side. There is an external gable stack on the left with grouped diagonal shafts, while the right side has a gable wall and stack with exposed roof timbers. The cottage has one storey and an attic, with a fragment of a moulded eaves cornice. It features two flat-roofed casement dormer windows and three ground floor casement windows, along with a boarded entrance door that has a rectangular fanlight. Inside, the surviving timber frame walls include deeply moulded ceiling beams in the parlour and ovolo moulded ceiling beams in the hall, with the original moulded cornice visible at the first floor in the open hall. The roof structure is butt-purlin. Historically, the building was located on the green before enclosure.