Bell Cottage

Bell Cottage is a house dating from the early 17th century, with alterations made in the 20th century. It is timber framed and plastered, topped with a thatched roof. The building consists of four bays aligned northeast to southwest, featuring an axial chimney stack in the second bay from the northeast end and an external chimney stack to the southeast of the southwest end. The cottage faces northwest. There is a 20th-century lean-to extension at the southwest end and a flat-roofed extension at the rear of the northeast end. The cottage is single storey with attics and includes a four-panel door with glazed upper panels, a 20th-century gabled porch, one 18th-century horizontally sliding sash window, one 19th-century casement window, two 20th-century casement windows, and two additional casement windows in slated gabled dormers. The roof is hipped. Inside, the cottage features heavy studding, longitudinal joists of horizontal section in the two northeast bays, and plain-chamfered transverse and axial beams, along with plain-chamfered joists of horizontal section.