Church Cottage

Church Cottage is a 17th-century cottage that was extended in the 20th century. It features a timber frame, mostly plastered, with sections of weatherboarding and brick cladding. The roof is covered with handmade red clay tiles and some 20th-century clay tiles. The building is oriented approximately east to west and has an axial chimney stack at the eastern end. The 20th-century extension on the west side includes a chimney stack at the junction.

The cottage is a single storey with attics. The south elevation, facing the street, has a plain door beneath a 20th-century hood, three 20th-century casement windows, and one additional casement window in a gabled dormer. The eastern end is clad in brickwork and features an outside end chimney stack that is painted. The north elevation, which faces the churchyard, has a weatherboarded dado with roughcast render above. It includes one half-glazed door, two casement windows, and one fixed light, all from the 20th century. There is also a 20th-century casement window in a swept dormer and another in a rear flat-roofed dormer.

This building may have originally been the school endowed by Simon Thorogood, a fishmonger from London, according to his will of 1635. It is believed to have been built in 1678 and served as a school until the early 19th century when it became the schoolmaster's house. Another cottage once stood to the east, also located between the church and the road, but it was demolished around 1842 to make way for a brick school, which is now the church hall. It remains uncertain which of the two buildings was Simon Thorogood's school.