Hope Cottage

Hope Cottage is a house dating from the 18th century, or possibly earlier, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is timber-framed and has a roughcast rendered finish with some weatherboarding, and a roof of handmade red clay tiles. The house is two bays wide, running approximately north-south (with a gabled end facing The Green). It has an external stack to the left of the first bay and an internal stack in the right-hand side of the roof, which heats a rear room. The main part of the house is one storey high, with attics. There are single-storey, slate-roofed lean-to extensions to the left, a flat-roofed extension to the rear, and a flat-roofed porch in the rear right angle, all dating to the 20th century. The front of the house has two 20th-century sash windows on the ground floor and one on the first floor. The rear gable is weatherboarded and has a single sash window with six panes.

Inside, much of the timber frame is hidden by plaster. Visible features include chamfered axial beams in each bay, some residual studding, primary straight bracing below the front beam, and a high-quality oak groundsill in the left wall at the rear, where studs have been removed to create a doorway into the lean-to. The house retains 20th-century grates.