Little Thatches

Little Thatches is a cottage dating from around 1600, with extensions made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is timber framed, with parts plastered and others clad in red brick laid in Flemish bond, and features a thatched roof. The original structure consists of two bays aligned northwest to southeast, with an external chimney stack at the southeast end. In the 18th century, a bay was added to the southeast, enclosing the stack, and in the 19th century, another bay was added at the northwest end, which includes an internal chimney stack. The building was then divided into two cottages, and a 20th-century extension was added to the northeast of the southeast end. The cottage has a southwest aspect and is a single storey with attics. It features two 20th-century glazed doors and one boarded door, along with four 20th-century casement windows. There are two eyebrow dormers; one has a 19th-century casement window, while the other has both a 19th-century and a 20th-century casement window, arranged one below the other. The roof is hipped at the northwest end. Inside the original cottage, there are jowled posts, arched braces set within heavy studs, mortices for early glazed windows with grooves for shutters, a chamfered transverse beam with lamb's tongue stops, plain joists of horizontal section, and a clasped purlin roof.