Victoria Cottage

Victoria Cottage is a building of uncertain purpose, dating from the late 16th century, with alterations made in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. It is timber framed and plastered, with a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The structure consists of three bays aligned approximately east to west, with a southern aspect and an external chimney stack at the eastern end. There is a two-bay extension to the east that encloses the stack, which dates from the 18th century, and a rear extension to the western bay that features an internal chimney stack at the junction, dating from the 18th or 19th century. A lean-to extension with a catslide roof was added to the rear of the remaining structure in the 19th century.

The building is two storeys high and features two 20th-century doors with bracketed pediments, two 18th-century splayed oriel windows with double-hung sash windows arranged in a 3-15-3 light configuration, and curved wooden brackets below. There are also two 20th-century casement windows. On the first floor, there are four 19th or 20th-century casement windows.

Inside, the building has plain-chamfered axial beams and joists that are plastered on the soffits. The partition wall between the two middle ground floor rooms has been removed, and some studding is exposed in the lower rear wall, showing evidence of a former unglazed window with four lights. The structure features jowled posts, close studding with curved tension braces that are trenched to the inside, short arched braces to the tiebeams, and a clasped purlin roof with curved wind bracing. Originally, the upper floor appears to have been one undivided space, which was later partitioned. The unusual position of the main stack and its location almost opposite the church suggest that the building may have originally served a public function rather than a domestic one.

The building was restored through public subscription as three cottages to celebrate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897, which is the origin of its current name. These cottages have since been combined to form one house.