Western Cottage

The house dates from the 15th century and has been altered in the 16th, 18th, and 19th centuries. It is timber-framed, with plaster infill and a roof covered in handmade red plain tiles. The original plan comprises a two-bay hall, a stack of about 1600 built against the front wall of the right-hand bay, an originally storeyed service bay to the right, a 19th-century internal stack at the end of this, and a parlour bay with a late 16th-century inserted floor to the left. A 18th-century, one-and-a-half-storey wing with a hipped gambrel slate roof sits behind the main stack. A 19th-century single-storey lean-to extension, with an internal stack, extends to the left of the wing, also roofed with slate. A smaller 19th-century lean-to extension, tiled, extends around the rear corner, and a 20th-century splayed bay is present to the front.

The front has one late 20th-century splayed bay window, one late 19th-century sash window with marginal lights, and one mid-19th-century sash window of six lights. Two similar late 19th-century sashes are in gabled dormers. The front door has six panels, a moulded architrave, a simple hood on profiled brackets. Both stacks have been rebuilt in the 19th century, in a reduced form at the top.

Inside the hall, a curved display brace is trenched into studs at the left end; an original doorway to the parlour is at the rear of the partition, and an inserted doorway is at the front. An inserted floor features one chamfered transverse beam, a pegged clamp at the left end, and a 20th-century axial beam. The wide wood-burning hearth contains a seat recess to the left, a cupboard recess to the right, an angled tunnel for salt at the rear, a chamfered and mitred mantel beam with a later cut-out, and chamfered jambs of 0.33 brickwork. The parlour is mainly plastered and contains a late 16th-century pegged clamp against the right partition.

The original cross-entry is still in use; the arched doorhead over the front door has been removed, and two arched doorheads to the service bay are partly present. An original partition separates the service rooms, with an inserted doorway. The hall has a chamfered and cambered central tiebeam, with a later cut-out for a hearth (now blocked) and severed for a doorway. A crownpost, largely concealed, has four-way arched braces. Two other internal tiebeams have been severed for doorways; part of the rear wallplate has been removed where the 18th-century extension abuts. Jowled posts are present and the house has hardwood floorboards, some exceptionally wide. The roof is complete, heavily smoke-blackened over the hall, and is of crownpost construction.