Saddlers Cottage

Saddlers Cottage is a lobby-entrance house dating from the late 17th century, with extensions added in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building has a timber frame, now plastered with simple geometrical designs in panels, and is covered with handmade red clay tiles. Originally, it comprised three bays aligned north-west to south-east, with an original chimney stack in the middle bay, creating a lobby-entrance. A 19th-century extension was added to the north-west, with its own chimney stack at the rear. A lean-to extension at the rear dates from the late 19th or early 20th century. The cottage is single-storey with attics. The front has two plain boarded doors, a bay window (previously a shop window), and two 20th-century casement windows. Four gabled dormers with 20th-century casement windows light the attics. The south-east end has a bali-hipped roof. Inside the original section of the house, there are chamfered spine beams with run-out stops, exposed joists, and some original floorboards. A ground floor room in the north-west extension, formerly a shop, is completely lined with tongued and grooved softwood planking, including the ceiling. A tiebeam at the north-west end of the original building was severed to create a doorway. The roof structure is not accessible.