Tudor Cottage

This is a timber-framed house dating from the 14th and 15th centuries, with alterations made in the 16th and 17th centuries. The house is timber-framed, plastered with exposed studding, and has weatherboarded panelling at the base. The roof is thatched. The original two-bay hall faces south and features a late 16th-century axial stack on the left end. A 17th-century extension is present beyond the hall, and a parlour or solar bay is located to the right, with a 17th and 18th-century external stack at its end, and a lean-to extension beyond that. The house has one storey with attics. It has four 20th-century casement windows, two more in eyebrow dormers, and a 20th-century half-glazed door. Details include jowled posts, heavy studding, and curved external bracing at the rear. The hall has a blocked window with four diamond mullions in the rear wall. The original central tiebeam has been removed. A large wood-burning hearth is present, constructed of brickwork measuring 0.33 metres on one side and 0.23 metres on the other. The inserted floor includes a chamfered transverse beam with step stops, and plain joists of horizontal section, supported on a pegged clamp on the right partition wall. The beam terminates short of the left stack and is extended to reach it, which indicates a former larger timber-framed chimney. The parlour/solar bay (on the right) has longitudinal plain joists of square section. The roof is a crownpost roof, with the crownpost and collar-purlin missing. The left extension has a chamfered transverse beam with lamb's tongue stops, plain joists of vertical section, and a clasped purlin roof. The floorboards have rebates.