Orchard Cottage

Orchard Cottage is a cottage, possibly originally two dwellings, dating from the 18th century. The building is timber-framed with rendered plaster walls and a long-straw thatched, half-hipped roof. It has two 19th-century ridge stacks. The cottage is one storey and has an attic with two dormers. The ground floor has four modern casement windows, with one on the east end possibly replacing a former doorway. A modern porch is located at the west end, concealing the doorway. Internally, the cottage features two back-to-back hearths, plain heads to posts, and shallow wall bracing. A draft Enclosure Award Map from 1801, known as the C.R.O. map, indicates the building’s historical context.