Beam Cottage Cage Cottage

Beam Cottage and Cage Cottage is a house that has been divided into two cottages. It dates from the early 15th century and has been altered in the 17th and 19th centuries. The building is timber framed and plastered, with a thatched roof. The main range consists of four bays facing east, with a two-bay crosswing at the left end. There is an axial stack and 19th-century external stacks at each end. The crosswing is two storeys high, while the main range has one storey with attics.

Beam Cottage features one 20th-century casement window and one 20th-century oriel window, along with two 20th-century casements on the first floor, one of which is in a swept dormer. There are double doors leading to a garage and a 20th-century door. A beam projects through the front wall, which is mortised and tusk-tenoned. Cage Cottage has two 19th-century horizontally sliding sash windows with eight lights and crown glass, one 20th-century casement, and another in a swept dormer. It also has a 20th-century door set in an early 19th-century simple doorcase with a shallow hood supported by scrolled brackets. The main stack features grouped diagonal shafts.

Inside, the building has heavy studding and curved tension bracing. The crosswing has plain joists of horizontal section that are jointed to the binding beam with central tenons, along with two brackets supporting an underbuilt jetty. The inserted floors in the hall have transverse beams with run-out chamfers and plain joists of vertical section. Although the central tiebeam has been moved to accommodate the inserted stack, it remains present. The hall roof is of crownpost construction and is smoke-blackened, but the collars, collar-purlin, and crownposts are missing.