Ingrave Cottage

Ingrave Cottage is a late 17th-century building that has been altered in the early 19th and 20th centuries. It is timber-framed and features early 19th-century red brick cladding in Flemish bond, topped with a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The cottage has two bays facing southeast, with an axial stack on the left end and an external stack on the right end. Originally, it was part of a larger house that extended further to the left, with the remaining section now known as No. 27. There is a single-storey lean-to extension at the rear, dating from the 18th or 19th century, which has mostly been incorporated into a rear extension built around 1983.

The cottage has two storeys and an attic. On the ground floor, there are two 20th-century bow windows, likely replacing earlier shop windows. The first floor features three early 19th-century sash windows with eight over eight lights, one of which has a 20th-century replacement lower sash. There is also a casement window in a hipped dormer. The central entrance has a 20th-century half-glazed door with a gabled canopy supported by brackets. The brick cladding projects forward from the original house, which is plastered over the timber frame.

Inside, the structure has a hardwood frame with unjowled posts and primary straight bracing, with all exposed timber having been sand-blasted. Each ground-floor room contains a chamfered transverse beam with lamb's tongue stops; one beam has been notched for a now-removed partition. The plain joists are of vertical section and are jointed to the beams with soffit tenons and diminished haunches. The partition between the ground-floor rooms has been removed, with some studs added. There is a large wood-burning hearth on the left with a seat recess in the front jamb, and the right hearth has been blocked and plastered over. A 20th-century winding stair leads to the first floor, where there are two early to mid-19th-century cast-iron grates. The first floor also contains three original three-plank internal doors, one located at the rear left of the ground floor and two on the first floor, one of which leads to a closet in front of the main stack and retains its original H-hinges. Additionally, there are three 20th-century doors in a similar style on the first floor. The roof features clasped purlins and includes some reused smoke-blackened rafters from a medieval hall house.