The Plague House

The Plague House is a cottage that dates from the late medieval period to the early 16th century. It features a timber frame with plaster and 19th-century gault brick. The roof is thatched with long straw, and there are local brick stacks at the ridge and ends. The original layout is L-shaped, consisting of two single-storey open halls, with an early 16th-century cross wing to the north. An early 17th-century stack and attic floors have been inserted, although some have been recently removed.

On the west elevation, there is one casement attic window and a pantiled gabled dormer window with horizontal sliding sashes. The ground floor has five windows of various sizes, all with glazing bars. The main entrance faces north and features a modern boarded door.

Inside, the exposed timber frame suggests that the halls were built in two or three phases, with smoke blackened rafters and tie beams indicating the original closed trusses. The early 16th-century cross wing has exposed stop-chamfered floor joists. There is a cross passage in the 16th-century arrangement to the north of the central stack.