Friday Cottage

Friday Cottage is a late 17th-century cottage, extended in the 20th century. The original core is timber-framed, with plastered and weatherboarded walls and a thatched roof. It comprises three bays aligned approximately north-south, with an easterly aspect and a chimney stack in the central bay, creating a lobby entrance to the front of the building. A two-storey crosswing was added to the south around 1965, with weatherboarding on the ground floor, plastering above and a roof of machine-made red clay tiles. A single-storey, flat-roofed extension extends eastwards to the north, and was built in the 20th century. The cottage is single-storey with attics. The front features a plain boarded door and two 19th or 20th-century casement windows with a weatherboarded dado and plastered upper sections. The roof is half-hipped at the north end. Some timber framing is visible internally. The interior reveals plain-chamfered axial beams with run-out stops, and unchamfered vertical section joists. A hearth facing south is constructed of 33 cm brickwork, with a lining of 20th-century brick. The walls contain primary straight bracing.