Cottage Between Tudor Cottage And Markswood Gallery Markswood Gallery Tudor Cottage

This building is a house and range of cottages, now divided into two houses and an art gallery. It dates back to the 16th century and earlier, with alterations made in the 17th and 19th centuries. The structure is timber framed, plastered, and has a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. It features a two-bay crosswing aligned north-south, facing south, and a two-bay hall range to the right, which includes an axial stack in the left bay. In the 19th century, the building was extended to the right to add two cottages with a central stack.

The current divisions are as follows: (1) Tudor Cottage, which includes the crosswing and part of the stack; (2) an unnamed cottage, which comprises the remainder of the hall range and one of the 19th-century cottages; and (3) Markswood Gallery, located at the right end, which has a 20th-century single-storey flat-roofed extension at the rear. The building is two storeys high.

Tudor Cottage features two 20th-century casement windows on the ground floor, one on the first floor, and a plain door. The roof has been raised approximately 0.5 metres, leaving the original wallplates projecting through the front elevation. The unnamed cottage has a two-window range of 19th-century horizontally sliding sashes with 24 lights and a plain door with a shallow hood supported by simple profiled brackets. Markswood Gallery has a 20th-century glazed door and a 19th-century splayed bay shop window that has been altered in the 20th century.

Inside Tudor Cottage, there are chamfered axial beams, exposed plain joists of horizontal section, and one visible curved brace set into heavy studding, all dating from the 16th century except for the roof. The hall range retains the original wallplates of the medieval hall, but no other original structure is visible. The walls were raised approximately 1 metre in the 17th century, and a floor was inserted, which includes a chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops and exposed joists of vertical section.