Tan Cottage

Tan Cottage is a cottage dating from around 1500, with an extension added around 1950. It is timber framed, plastered, and has a roof made of handmade red plain tiles. The cottage has two bays facing southeast and features a later external stack at the right end, which is now part of the large extension from the 1950s. It is a single storey building with attics, containing four 20th-century casement windows and a plain boarded door from the 19th century. There is one gabled dormer with a 20th-century casement window at the rear and a 19th-century octagonal shaft on the stack.

The structure includes jowled posts, heavy studding, and a cambered central tiebeam. There is a shutter groove in the rear wallplate of the right bay. The floors in both bays have been inserted and consist of plain joists of square and vertical section arranged longitudinally, supported by pegged and nailed clamps. A staircase with a quarter-turn at the bottom is located in the front left corner. The hearth facing the cottage has been blocked, and a 20th-century grate has been inserted to the right of the stack, with tiled shoulders of the stack visible inside the extension. The right bay has a brick floor. The crownpost roof features arched axial braces that are 32mm thick and remain intact in the left bay, although they have been cut back in the right bay. The rafters are lightly smoke-blackened, suggesting that the cottage may have originally had a thatched roof.