Dormers

Cottage, dating to the early to mid-16th century, with later additions from the 17th and 18th centuries. It is timber-framed and has plaster and roughcast rendering with a thatched roof. A largely original ridge stack is visible, built of narrow red brick in broad courses, with rebuilt upper courses of grey brick. The original cottage follows a three-bay lobby-entry plan and was extended by a fourth bay, likely in the 17th century. The cottage is one storey high with an attic, and has three dormers. There are three casement windows and a doorway in their original positions, opposite the stack. A rear wall features an early 19th-century horizontal sliding sash window with segmental arched top panes. A bread oven projects from the rear wall. A rear outhouse or service wing, originally detached, has been converted into living space and is now linked to the 16th-century cottage. The wing also has timber framing, plaster rendering, and a thatched roof with a single grey brick flue stack, likely dating to the early 19th century. This wing has two dormers, three ground-floor casement windows, and originally two doors, one of which is now blocked. Inside the original 16th-century cottage, the timber framing is of heavy, uniform scantling, similar to that found at number 69 Swaynes Lane. Part of the floor frame is exposed, with a broad, stop-chamfered main beam and unmoulded joists laid on edge. The main beam in the central room is also stop-chamfered with leaf stops. The building contains abutting inglenook hearths. The roof trusses are of through-purlin type, with original half-hipping to the ends, and have jowelled heads to the principal posts. The later 17th-century single-bay addition has timbers of slender scantling.