Fairfield Cottage

Fairfield Cottage is a house dating from the early 17th century, with alterations made in the 18th and 20th centuries. It is timber framed and plastered, featuring a roof covered with handmade red clay tiles at the front and interlocking concrete tiles at the rear. The cottage has three bays facing south, with a stack located in the middle bay, set behind the main axis. There is a 20th-century single-storey extension at the rear, with outshuts on each side that create catslides with the main roof. The building is one storey high with attics, and it has two 20th-century casement windows, along with two additional casements in flat-roofed dormers. The entrance features a plain boarded door within a 20th-century gabled porch.

Inside, the cottage displays primary straight bracing, and the studs of the rear wall of the main range show a series of chisel-cut carpenter's assembly marks. The spacing of the studs is wider in the right bay, suggesting that the right outshut may be original. The stack, which is set back, likely originally formed a lobby entrance that is now blocked; it is believed that the original staircase was located in front of it. The interior includes chamfered axial beams on half-height jowls. In the right bay, the beam is unstopped, and the joists are of horizontal section, with most being chamfered and featuring lamb's tongue stops, alongside some plain replacements. In the left bay, the beam is chamfered with lamb's tongue and notch stops, and all the joists have lamb's tongue stops. The cottage also contains two large wood-burning hearths and a clasped purlin roof.