Byford Cottage Gosfield Antiques

Byford Cottage and Gosfield Antiques is a house and shop dating from the early 16th century or earlier. It is a hall house with two crosswings, constructed with a timber frame and plastered with ashlar lines, topped with red plain tiled roofs. The hall features a red brick chimney stack with three octagonal shafts, and there is a left external chimney stack with two octagonal shafts. The building has two storeys in the right and left crosswings, with the left crosswing having a single-storey lean-to extension. The central hall has one storey and attics, including one gabled dormer. The front has a window arrangement of three sections, each with 19th-century small paned casements. There is a flat-roofed shop bay to the centre left, next to a glazed shop door. A 20th-century gabled red tiled porch and a 20th-century door are located on the right return. The rear incorporates additional ranges. It is reputed to contain a carved wall post, moulded beams, hollow chamfered tie beams, and an original inglenook fireplace.