Heron Cottage

Heron Cottage is a house dating back to the 18th century, with extensions added in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It is timber-framed and has been clad with weatherboarding, covered by a roof of handmade red clay tiles. The main part of the house faces northeast, with an external stack at each gable end. There are two parallel wings at the rear, added in the early 19th century, with an external stack to the rear of the left wing. A single-storey lean-to extension, dating back to the 19th century, extends from the rear of both wings, forming a rectangular plan. A further single-storey wing was added to the rear right in the late 19th or early 20th century, featuring an axial stack.

The front of the house has two storeys with attics. On the ground floor, there is one 18th-century sash window with six panes over six lights, as well as a former shop window that was converted in the early 20th century and now has four transomed lights. The first floor has two similar sashes, with alterations to the one on the left and a 20th-century replacement sash in the middle. There are two 18th-century two-light windows with rectangular leading, one fixed light and one wrought-iron casement each, alongside a 20th-century metal casement, set within flat-roofed dormers. A central 20th-century door is located within a 19th/20th-century lean-to porch, featuring side-lights, a limestone step, and a tiled canopy supported by brackets. The roof is gambrel-shaped. The left-hand stack is original, with tumbled courses at the shoulders and rebuilt at the top. Behind this is an early 19th-century glazed door and a canopy with moulded and dentilled details on brackets. The right-hand stack may have an original base, now rendered, but most of it is of late 19th-century brickwork without tumbled courses. To the rear of this, there are two early 19th-century sashes, each with six panes over six lights, on both floors. The lean-to extension has a 19th-century casement window on the ground floor and a plain boarded door with a small glass pane on the upper level. A 20th-century skylight and two casements are set within a large 20th-century dormer in the lean-to roof.

The rear wing is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, with handmade tiles on the right pitch and machine-made tiles on the left. The left wall includes various inscribed dates and initials, some on reused bricks.

Internally, the left front ground-floor room has a chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops, and an attached early 19th-century corner cupboard with two profiled shelves and two plain doors below. The right ground-floor room has a similar beam with plain stops, and some introduced oak panelling dating back to around 1600. An early 19th-century staircase has a closed string and stick balusters. Behind the staircase is an early 19th-century two-panel pine door with L hinges, and to the right, an early 19th-century borrowed light with early glass. The rear left ground-floor room has a 20th-century grate within an early 19th-century fireplace, complete with a dentilled mantel and a mantel above. To the left is a rectangular recess with two profiled shelves, a moulded architrave, and two moulded doors below. The first floor of the main range has chamfered axial beams with lamb's tongue stops and an early 19th-century cast-iron ducknest grate in each room. The left room features an 18th-century moulded ceiling cornice. Two-panel pine doors lead to the attic rooms.