Pair Of Cottages 20 Metres South Of Terling Stores And Post Office

This building is a pair of cottages located 20 metres south of Terling Stores and Post Office. Originally constructed in the 15th century, it underwent alterations in the 16th, 18th, and 19th centuries. The structure is timber framed, plastered, and features a weatherboarded dado, with a roof made of handmade red clay tiles.

The cottages include a two-bay hall facing northeast, which has a late 16th-century axial stack in the left bay. To the left of the hall is a three-bay crosswing, which was extended to the rear by one bay in the 18th or 19th century, and has a single-storey extension at the rear forming a catslide with the crosswing. To the right of the hall is another two-bay crosswing, also extended to the rear by one bay in the 18th or 19th century, featuring an axial stack. There is an 18th or 19th-century extension to the right of the right crosswing, which was formerly a shop with a cottage at the rear, including an internal stack at the rear end.

The hall is one storey with attics, while the remainder of the building is two storeys. On the ground floor, there are three 20th-century casement windows, and on the first floor, there are two more casements, one in a gabled dormer of the hall, and one in a half-dormer of the right extension. There are also two plain boarded doors. The stacks have been rebuilt with grouped diagonal shafts. The building features jowled posts, and the hall contains a late 16th-century inserted floor with a chamfered axial beam and chamfered joists of square section with lamb's tongue stops. A chamfered rising brace to the central tiebeam is visible. The roof is of crownpost construction but is plastered to the collars, with some smoke-blackening visible at the dormer.

The left crosswing originally had two long bays and a short bay at the rear, which was partitioned from the remainder, but the ground-floor partition has since been removed. It has cambered tiebeams and a crownpost roof with axial bracing. The right crosswing features close studding with straight tension braces that are trenched to the inside. Access to the roof is not available.