Appletree Farm Cottage

Appletree Farm Cottage is a house dating back to around 1500, with alterations made around 1600 and in the 20th century. It is constructed with a timber frame, plastered walls, and a roof covered in handmade red plain tiles. The house originally comprised a two-bay hall facing southwest, and a parlour/solar bay to its left. A service bay originally positioned to the right was demolished and replaced by an early 19th-century extension. An 18th or 19th-century lean-to extends from the rear wall near the left end, and a 20th-century lean-to is located at the rear of the right end.

The cottage is one storey in height with attics. It has four 20th-century casement windows, and two more located within gabled dormers. A 20th-century door is situated within a gabled porch at the front. The rear stack has been rebuilt in the 20th century and extends above the roofline.

Original features include jowled posts, heavy studding, edge-halved and bridled scarfs in both wallplates, and a chamfered main frame with stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops. The hall retains an original rear doorway with a plain doorhead on the right end. The front doorway has been blocked. A cambered central tiebeam is present, along with diamond mortices and a shutter rebate in the front wallplate, indicating the location of a large, unglazed window (sill and transom now missing), and a blocked doorway towards the service end. An inserted floor in the hall consists of a chamfered transverse beam with lamb's tongue stops, and plain joists supported on clamps. The original studded partition at the left end of the hall has been removed from the ground floor, although it remains above the tiebeam, exhibiting smoke-blackening; the studs above the tiebeam have been replaced. A framed doorway inserted into the tiebeam during the 17th century was later reinforced with iron strapping and features two pintle hinges in the doorpost. The rear stack contains a wide wood-burning hearth dating from the 16th century, which has been entirely repointed and reduced for a 20th-century grate; the left jamb is 0.33 metres wide, the right jamb 0.23 metres wide, indicating some alteration. A smaller 19th-century hearth faces into the rear lean-to. The floor in the left (parlour/solar) bay is not original and includes a chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops and plain joists of vertical section, likely dating from the late 17th or early 18th century. The original studded partition at the right end of the hall is heavily weathered. The floor in the right end bay consists of a chamfered axial beam with step stops and plain, horizontally sectioned joists supported on clamps. The roof has been altered. The cottage was identified as Appletree Farm on the Ordnance Survey map of 1970 (L/2500).