The Thatched Cottage

The Thatched Cottage is a house that dates back to the early 16th century or earlier, with alterations made around 1600 and in the 19th century. It features a timber frame with plaster and a thatched roof. The building has a two-bay hall facing northeast, with a 17th or 18th-century stack at the left end and a storeyed parlour or solar bay to the right. There is a 19th-century stack to the right and a one-bay extension added in the 19th century. At the rear, there is a single-storey lean-to extension with a corrugated iron roof.

The cottage is one storey with attics. On the ground floor, there are two 19th-century horizontally sliding sash windows with 12 lights each, along with a small casement window from the same period. The first floor features two similar sash windows in gabled dormers. There are also two plain boarded doors. A beam from the inserted floor projects through the front wall, which is morticed and tusk-tenoned. The structure includes jowled posts with step stops, heavy studding, and diamond mortices from former unglazed windows in the front and rear walls of the hall.

The inserted floor in the hall consists of a chamfered transverse beam with elaborated step stops, tusk-tenoned at both ends, and plain longitudinal joists of horizontal section supported on pegged clamps, dating from around 1600. The roof of the hall is constructed with collar rafters, and all the timbers are heavily smoke-blackened. The central tie beam of the hall has been removed, and the tie beam between the hall and solar has been cut to create an inserted doorway. The roof of the solar has been rebuilt. This house has undergone adaptations, including a period when it was divided into two cottages in the early 19th century before being re-combined.