Mount Cottage Yorklette Cottage

Mount Cottage and Yorklette Cottage are late medieval houses located on Bures Hall Road. They are timber framed and rendered, featuring plain tile roofs. The buildings are single storey with an attic, while Yorklette Cottage has a two-storey cross wing. Originally built as a hall house, they were divided into two cottages in the 18th century. The former hall and upper end are contained within Yorklette Cottage to the north, which has a cross wing of two bays and a gableted rear roof. Inside, there is an inserted floor in the hall supported by stop-chamfered 16th-century floor joists. The former parlour or solar has a wall of exposed framing and tension bracing from the former hall. The cross wing features an arch-braced tie beam, a stair opening in the northeast corner, and bridging joists resting on a substantial shaped corbel in the south wall. An inglenook stack on the party wall projects through the front slope of the roof. Mount Cottage, the former low end, has a break in the roof line and broad gabled dormers that may date to the 17th century. It also has a ridge stack and an external stack on the left return. Each cottage includes a catslide roof rear dormer. There is evidence of 17th-century work in the parlour of Mount Cottage, including a chamfered beam with an ogee stop.