Herkstead Green Cottage

Herkstead Green Cottage is a house dating from the 16th and 17th centuries, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is timber framed and plastered, featuring a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. On the west side, there is an external chimney stack from the 17th or 18th century. The eastern range, built in the 17th century, has four bays and two axial chimney stacks, one from the 17th century and the other from the 19th century. The cottage is two storeys high, with a south elevation that includes a 20th-century glazed door and three 20th-century casement windows.

Inside, the cottage has jowled posts, a steeply cambered tiebeam with arched braces in the crosswing, and an original clasped purlin roof with high collars and curved windbraces. The eastern range features lodged axial beams that are plain-chamfered, a cambered tiebeam that has been reused from a medieval building, and some smoke-blackened rafters that have also been reused. It is evident that this wing replaced an open hall on the same site, likely the source of the reused timber. The construction shows similarities to Herkstead Green Farmhouse, located 100 meters to the west.