End Cottage

End Cottage is a house that dates back to the late medieval period and was altered in the 19th century. It features a timber frame that is plastered, with some sections made of painted brick, and is topped with handmade red plain tiles. The house has two bays facing northwest, which include an originally storeyed service bay and part of an open hall, typical of medieval house plans, along with a short extension on the left side.

In the middle of the building, against the rear wall, there is an early 17th-century stack. The cottage has two storeys, with the ground floor faced in painted brick, featuring one 20th-century and one 19th-century casement window. The first floor has two 19th-century horizontal sash windows with 12 lights each, as well as one plain light at half-floor level. There is a plain boarded door and a half-glazed four-panel door.

The structure includes jowled posts and heavy studding. The left bay contains a chamfered axial beam with mortices and wattle grooves that indicate a former partition between two service rooms, along with plain joists of horizontal section framed around a blocked stair trap in the right rear corner and some original floorboards. The front wallplate has diamond mortices and a shutter rebate from a former unglazed window. The internal partition features curved tension braces that are trenched into the right side, along with a series of inscribed carpenter's marks. The roof includes some original wattle and daub infill.

In the right bay, there is a large wood-burning hearth facing to the right, with a plain salt recess at the back, a deeply chamfered axial beam, and plain joists of vertical section that have been raised above their original positions. The internal surfaces have been sand-blasted, which has removed the sooting typically found in an open hall. The roof of the left bay was rebuilt in the 19th century with a ridge board, while the roof of the right bay was rebuilt in clasped purlin form in the 17th century, reusing one smoke-blackened rafter from the medieval roof as a purlin. Originally, the building extended further to the right.