September Cottage

September Cottage is a cottage dating from around 1600, with an extension added in the 17th century. It is timber framed and plastered, with a thatched roof. The building has four bays facing northwest, with the right bay being shorter and containing an axial stack. There is a one-bay extension to the right from the 17th century. The cottage is one storey high with attics and features two 19th-century horizontally sliding sash windows with 12 lights, one 19th-century casement window with 12 lights, and a horizontally sliding sash window with 12 lights in a gabled dormer. The plain boarded door has an inscription "H I E 1718" in an oval raised border in the plastered gable of the dormer.

The original structure includes jowled posts, curved braces set inside the studding, and a clasped purlin roof with arched wind bracing. The left bay has longitudinal plain joists that are raised and of horizontal section. The middle section features a chamfered transverse beam with lamb's tongue stops, with joists to the left of this beam being of horizontal section and chamfered, while those to the right are of vertical section and plain. There is a large wood-burning hearth that has been reduced for a stove. The right bay has unjowled posts, a chamfered axial beam without stops, and plain joists of vertical section. The short bay at the right end of the original cottage was built for a timber framed chimney, which was larger than the current stack. Both tiebeams in this bay have been removed, necessitating the substitution of some joists because the original ones were not long enough to reach the present stack. Some early floorboards and an early winder stair are located at the rear of the stack.