Cherry Tree Cottage

Cherry Tree Cottage is a house dating to the 16th century or earlier, with alterations made in the 20th century. It is constructed with a timber frame, now roughcast rendered, and has a roof covered in handmade red clay tiles. The building originally comprised two or three bays facing southeast, featuring an axial stack on the right-hand side. A flat-roofed extension, added in the 20th century, extends to the right and to the rear. The cottage has one storey with attics. Windows include 20th-century casements, and a 19th or 20th-century casement within a gabled dormer. A 20th-century door is located within a gabled porch at the front. Original features include jowled posts and heavy studding. The left bay contains an original floor of longitudinal joists, with a trimmed stair trap in the north corner. Large peg-holes within a studded partition suggest a former fixed bench was present on the hall side. Within the hall, a late 16th-century floor is visible, featuring a chamfered transverse beam, a chamfered axial beam, and plain joists jointed with soffit tenons and diminished haunches, supported by pegged clamps. A large wood-burning hearth has been altered around 1983. A tiebeam of the partition is cut for a framed doorway, indicating it originally extended from the ground to the roof. The brick stack likely replaced an earlier timber-framed chimney, potentially succeeding an even earlier open hearth. The roof structure is not accessible. The cottage was renovated around 1983 without significant structural changes.