Webbs Cottage

Webbs Cottage is a house dating to the late 16th century. It is timber-framed and rendered, with a weatherboarded first floor. The ground floor front wall has been rebuilt in painted brick. The roof is covered with plain tiles. The house originally comprised two frame bays with a central lobby entry, and retains a two-bay cross wing incorporated into a single-storey range under a lean-to roof to the left. A central plank door is set within a 20th-century open lean-to porch. The ground floor has 12-pane sash windows; the sash to the left is early 18th century, made of oak with thick glazing bars containing Crown glass, while the other is later 18th century. The first floor has six-light sash windows. Inside, a large stepped brick stack with a mantel beam remains in the inglenook, which has been modified with 20th-century brickwork. This stack has been extended to the upper floor, providing a three-centred fireplace in the room above the hall. The ground floor has cross and spine beams, chamfered with bar stops. There are chamfered joists with lambs-tongue stops in the former hall, and plain joists in the service end to the right. A straight flight of stairs has been inserted against the end wall, creating a subdivision of the original hall. A single wall post is visible to full height in this angle. The timber frame is largely exposed at first floor level. Other features include chamfered jowled posts with run-out stops, arch braces to slightly cambered tie beams, a face-edged scarf to the front wall plate, a clasped purlin roof with queen posts and windbraces. A side wall of the former cross wing, incorporated into the side range, has two full-height chamfered jowled posts; the front post has been truncated above ground floor level, and the end of the arch brace has been sawn off. The central post is jowled to carry a removed floor beam. Two cambered collars are built into the later structure of the range.