Robin Hood Cottage

Robin Hood Cottage is a late 16th-century timber-framed and plastered building, originally an inn, now a dwelling and art gallery, located in Great Staughton. The original design comprised two units, featuring a lobby entry facing west and an outshut to the east. In the 17th century, the main range was extended south by one bay. A two-story painted brick wing was added to the west in the 20th century. The roof is covered with plain tiles and slate. The building has a red brick stack from the 16th century and another from the 19th century. The street-facing elevation showcases two 20th-century casement windows on the first floor, three ground-floor horizontal sliding sash windows with glazing bars, and a modern six-panel door within the outshut. Inside, a large inglenook hearth is present, alongside chamfered ceiling beams, a side purlin roof with a yolked ridge piece, and long straight braces to the collar of a display truss to the north of the stack. A hall of one bay to the south may have had a floor inserted in the 17th century.