End Cottage

End Cottage is a house dating from the 16th century, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is timber framed and plastered, with a thatched roof. The building consists of four bays aligned northeast to southwest, facing northwest, and features an axial chimney stack in the middle. There is a 20th-century wing at the rear of the southwest end, creating an L-plan, along with a single-storey lean-to extension in the eastern angle. The cottage is single-storey with attics.

The entrance has a 20th-century door, and there is one horizontally sliding sash window with 12 lights from the 19th century, along with two 20th-century casement windows and two additional casement windows in gabled dormers. The roof is hipped at the southwest end, and the northeast gable displays a date of 1799 in modern plaster. Some of the timber framing is exposed inside, featuring jowled posts, heavy studding with curved braces that are trenched outside, and an edge-halved and bridled scarf in the southeast wallplate.

Originally, the northeast bay was a single storey with a gablet roof, which was later extended to form a gable and a floor was inserted. There is an original central doorway leading into the next bay, indicating that this was the service end of the house. The second bay contains a floor made of longitudinal joists with a horizontal section that are unchamfered. Above this, the roof is constructed with collar rafters, and some timbers show signs of charring. The cottage has two large wood-burning hearths, both featuring apertures for bread ovens on the northwest side, and a cast iron fireback displaying the crest of the City of London along with the initials FW, dating from the 17th century.

Most of the structure to the southwest has been renewed due to a fire in 1883, which was reported in the Cambridge Evening News that year. At that time, the building consisted of two cottages known as Worlds End Cottage and Water Lane Cottage.