Ash Tree Cottage

Ash Tree Cottage is a late 17th-century cottage that has been altered in the 20th century. It features a timber frame, with plaster and weatherboarding, and a thatched roof. The cottage has three bays facing southwest, with a central stack that creates a lobby entrance. At the rear, there is a single-storey flat-roofed extension added in the 20th century. The building is one storey high with attics and includes three 20th-century casement windows. The front has a 20th-century door set within a tiled gabled porch. The roof is half-hipped at both ends. Inside, there is a large wood-burning hearth on the left side and a smaller hearth with a 20th-century grate on the right. The left bay features a chamfered transverse beam without stops, with plain joists of vertical section supported on a pegged clamp. The right bay contains a chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops, supported by a transverse beam and similar joists. The structure includes primary straight bracing, face-halved and bladed scarfs in the wallplates, and a clasped purlin roof. There is a fully framed doorway through the tiebeam.