St Michael'S Cottage

A mid-17th century cottage, later altered in the 18th and early 19th centuries, now divided into two dwellings. The cottage is timber-framed and originally plaster-rendered, with a front wall cased in brick during the 18th century and now painted. It has a long straw thatched roof and a 19th-century gault brick stack. A side stack to the crosswing is also 19th century, featuring a widened base for a bread oven. The original layout comprised a hall and a crosswing. The hall range is single-storey with an attic, and incorporates three dormers. The front elevation has three sixteen-pane hung sashes on either side of the doorway. The early 19th-century doorcase features a reeded entablature with diamond boss enrichment beneath a narrow, serpentine canopy. The crosswing was originally jettied and now has a flush-frame hung sash of sixteen panes to each storey. Number 13 has a rear extension with an 18th-century mansard roof. Inside Number 13, inglenook hearths have been removed, resulting in the demolition of the main beam. The remaining right-hand bay retains a mid-to-late stop-chamfered main beam with run-out stops. The interior of Number 11 was not inspected.