Cut Hedge Cottage

Cut Hedge Cottage is a house dating from the late 17th century, with a 20th-century extension. It has a timber frame, is plastered, and features a thatched roof. The cottage has four bays facing west, with one axial stack and a 18th-century external stack at the left end. There is a single-storey lean-to extension with a slate roof at the right end, and another single-storey extension in front of it, roofed with red clay Roman tiles. The building is one storey high with attics and has a two-window range of early 19th-century sashes with 20 lights, the upper ones set in swept dormers, along with three fixed lights from the 19th or 20th century. The front door is from the 20th century and is located at a gabled porch also roofed with red clay Roman tiles. Inside, there are chamfered axial beams with lamb's tongue stops, plain joists of vertical section supported on pegged clamps, primary straight bracing, and a clasped purlin roof. A large wood-burning hearth faces to the left. The bread oven noted by the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England is no longer present. The cottage retains two original moulded doors and original floorboards.