Curtis Mill Cottage

Curtis Mill Cottage is a house that dates from the 16th century, 17th century, and 20th century. It is timber-framed and weatherboarded, with a roof covered in factory-made tiles from the 20th century. The cottage has four dormers and is one storey with an attic, featuring an irregular range of five windows. The entrance includes a simple 20th-century door with a sloping hood and a yellow brick porch, along with an older door on the north side. A central stack is located at the rear of the ridge, and there is a porch and dormers on the rear side.

The roofline has a break that indicates two bays of a medieval building at the north end, which is likely half of a former house. The remaining structure is framed in 20th-century timber. Inside, the northern bay features heavy external arched bracing and principal members of a clasped side purlin roof, possibly including remnants of a former crown post. The ground floor ceiling, which serves as the attic floor, is raised and made from reused timber, with joists that have soffit tenons. The adjoining bay on the upper floor has a cambered, chamfered tie-beam that likely was once the central truss of a hall, with mortices for deep arched braces in the storey post. A cutaway section in the east wall plate indicates the location of a hall window.

The 17th-century addition of the ceiling includes a bridging joist with diamond broach stops and chamfers, as well as diminished haunched soffit tenons supported by the brickwork of the stack and a chamfered, cambered tie-beam with mortices for braces, which has been reused as a binding joist to support both halves of the ceiling. The fireplace was rebuilt in the 20th century, and there has been considerable reorganization of the interior. The cottage is listed primarily for the interest of its 16th-century and 17th-century features.