Spring Cottage

Spring Cottage is a two-storey cottage dating back to the 17th century, with later additions from the late 17th or early 18th century and the 19th century. A 20th-century extension was added to the east, and a large 20th-century single-storey extension is present to the east. The cottage has a timber frame, now rendered, and a gable roof covered with thatch added in the 20th century. A late 17th-century chimney stack sits off-centre, and a 19th-century stack is at the west end. Originally built as a two-room cottage, it has a single-storey rear outshot contemporary with the earliest framing.

The façade has a central 20th-century door set beneath a gablet. This is flanked by three inserted 20th-century bay windows on the ground floor, with three dormers above. All windows are 20th-century leaded-light casements. The rear elevation features a small 20th-century projecting porch to the east, and a central 20th-century door, with four 20th-century leaded-light casements.

The interior retains a substantial two-bay pegged and jointed timber frame of good quality, with much of it intact on both the ground and first floors. Notable features include square-sectioned timbers of considerable size, such as the sole plate, west gable end and rear wall frames of both rooms and the outshot, along with surviving floor frames. There are widely chamfered axial bridging beams with lambs-tongue stops, diagonally-braced cross walls, and visible studwork. A late 17th-century inglenook fireplace has been partially rebuilt, incorporating two 17th-century brick infill panels to the left and a jowled wall post to the right. The later 17th or early 18th-century addition to the east has a transverse chamfered bridging beam, an intact floor frame, and parts of a second inglenook fireplace remain. The first floor retains early 17th-century wall frames, cross frames, wall plates, tie beams, collars, most of the studwork, and a blocked window in one room. The first-floor room of the later 17th or early 18th-century addition has an exposed chimney of a similar date and intact cross, rear, and front wall frames.

Spring Cottage is a good example of a 17th-century timber cottage with later 17th/early 18th and 19th-century additions. It retains a significant proportion of its original fabric. While remodelled in the later 20th century, a substantial amount of good-quality 17th-century timber framing remains, and the later 17th/early 18th-century addition includes a fine chimney stack and inglenook fireplace contributing to its special architectural interest.