Hall Cottage

Hall Cottage is a house dating from around 1500, with a 20th-century extension. It is timber framed and was originally plastered, with weatherboarded panelling at the lower level. The roof is thatched. The house has three bays aligned north to south, facing west, and has an internal chimney stack at the north end of the central bay. A single-storey, flat-roofed extension was added to the rear in the 20th century.

The house is single-storey with attics. The front features a 20th-century door and porch, and three 20th-century casement windows. The roof is half-hipped at both ends.

Inside, the house originally comprised a large hall, an open service bay at the north end, and a storeyed parlour or solar bay to the south, all initially open to the roof. Floors were inserted in the late 16th century. Notable features include jowled posts, heavy studding, curved display bracing at the south end of the hall, and an original doorway leading to the parlour, with a shallow V-shaped head. The inserted floor in the main hall has a chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops, and chamfered joists with step stops supported on pegged clamps. Other floors have plain, horizontally sectioned joists, arranged longitudinally in the north bay, also supported on pegged clamps. The chimney stack has been largely or wholly rebuilt. The wallplate scarfs are of an unusual, apparently “fished,” type. An internal tiebeam on the south side has been removed and one on the north side has been cut to create a doorway. The roof is of collar-rafter construction, with all rafters intact. There is little to no evidence of smoke-blackening, which may be due to cleaning of the timbers, though an initial form of chimney is possible, likely timber-framed rather than brick.