Peverel Cottage

Peverel Cottage is a house dating from the late 17th century, with alterations made in the early 19th century. It is timber framed, plastered, and has a roof made of handmade red plain tiles. The house has three bays facing southwest, with an oblique gable end presented to the street. There is an internal stack near the right end against the rear wall, and a 19th-century external stack at the back of the left bay. A 20th-century single-storey lean-to extension is located at the right end, roofed with corrugated asbestos, which was subject to a planning application at the time of the survey in February 1987.

The cottage is one storey with attics and features three 20th-century casements, along with one small light for the stair below the eaves and one 19th-century casement in a gabled dormer. The gable end facing the street includes an early 19th-century sash window with six lights on each storey, and there are late 19th or early 20th-century serpentine bargeboards. Inside the right bay, there is a large disused wood-burning hearth facing to the right, a smaller 19th-century hearth positioned back to back with it, and a fragment of a former bread oven forming a recess in the rear wall.

The exposed tiebeam on the right is visible externally, while the tiebeam on the left has rotated out of position. The plain joists of vertical section are supported on pegged clamps. In the middle bay, there is a chamfered axial beam with plain joists jointed to it using soffit tenons with diminished haunches. A cross-wall to the left features heavy studding with primary straight bracing, and the tiebeam has been severed for a doorway. In the left bay, there is a waney axial beam, a 20th-century grate, and two early 19th-century corner cupboards with arched heads attached to the building.