Dobbins Cottage

Dobbins Cottage is a house that was previously a farmhouse, dating from the early 17th century and possibly incorporating the timber frame of an earlier building. It features a timber-framed and plastered structure with a stone and brick plinth that is painted and plastered. The roofs are plain tiled. The house has a large central red brick ridge stack adorned with sawtooth brick and a moulded brick cornice, along with a side stack on the right that has similar details, both with rebuilt shafts. The left side stack has been rebuilt with a tall 19th-century brick shaft.

The building is two storeys and has a half H-plan layout, with a double hall forming the main range and a service cross wing to the left and a parlour cross wing to the right, which formerly included a rear staircase. The main entrance features a lobby with a glazed four-panelled door. There are three nine-paned hung sash windows with side lights on the ground floor and four on the first floor, along with one ground floor casement window.

Inside, the cottage displays exposed timber framing with wind braces to the closed truss, which may suggest an earlier frame, and some reused timbers. The ceiling beams and floor joists are stop chamfered and of light scantling. There is an ogee-moulded door frame and an ovolo-mullioned two-light window that has been sealed above the entrance. The ceilings are coved and plastered. The chimneys have been altered, with one large open hearth featuring plain brick jambs that have been partly rebuilt after a fire. The original roof remains intact. The house was formerly known as Town Farmhouse.