Bramleys

Bramleys is a cottage dating from the 13th century, featuring an aisled hall with a base cruck truss added in the 14th century. At the southeast end, there is an 18th-century kitchen bay. The building is timber-framed, plaster rendered, and has a thatched roof made of reed and long straw, which is hipped at the northwest end. It is a single range structure with three bays, although there is evidence that it originally extended further, indicated by the mortice for a brace in the southeast arcade post on the north side.

The cottage has a red brick ridge stack from around 1600, with grouped shafts set diagonally on a square base. It is one storey high with an attic, featuring one eyebrow dormer on the north side and four small ground floor windows on either side of the baffle entry doorway. A bread oven projects from the rear wall. The 18th-century bay added at the southeast end is also timber framed, plaster rendered, and has a thatched hipped roof.

Inside, the 13th-century features of the aisled hall include unjowled heads on the arcade posts and passing braces from wall posts to tie beams, which can be seen in the truss southeast of the chimney. The collar rafter roof shows signs of soot. Other 13th-century characteristics include a splayed scarf joint of an early type on the northwest end wall and another, possibly later, on the rear wall. The base cruck consists of a pair of blades cut from a single tree, morticed for arch braces that have since been removed, as well as for side braces to the arcade plate. The bay at the northwest end is floored and has heavy, closely set joists laid on edge. The open hall was lit on the north side by a window opening with diamond mullions, the locations of which are still visible. The floor and stack were inserted into the open hall in the 17th century. The house is particularly noteworthy due to its early date and the variety of structural features it contains.