Great Lengths

This is a pair of cottages, originally separate but now combined, dating back to the 16th century. They are located on the south side of The Street, Pebmarsh. The cottages are timber-framed and have been plastered, with a thatched roof. The larger cottage has two bays and one storey with attics, facing north, and features a stack on its left return wall. It has been extended to the left with a smaller, two-bay, single-storey cottage. A 20th-century single-storey extension projects from the rear of the smaller cottage. The windows are mostly horizontally sliding sashes, with twelve, twelve, twenty-four, and eight lights respectively. There is also a 20th-century casement window in an eyebrow dormer. A plain boarded door provides access. A beam is visible projecting through both the front and rear walls of the larger cottage, mortised and wedged externally. A curved arched collar is exposed in the right return wall. Inside, the larger cottage retains numerous original features including jowled posts, curved braces trenched inside heavy studding, chamfered axial beams, plain horizontal section joists, original floor boards, and a nearly complete set of early boarded internal doors.