Crabbs Cottage

Crabbs Cottage is an early 18th-century cottage that has been extended in the 19th and 20th centuries. It features a timber frame with plastering and a thatched roof. Originally, the cottage consisted of two bays with a chimney stack at the southwest end and a newel stair located in front of the stack. There is an extension to the southwest of the stack that was used for a workshop, storage, or similar purposes, as well as a 19th-century lean-to extension at the rear. A further extension was added to the rear of the southwest end around 1972. The cottage is a single storey with attics and has three 20th-century casement windows and a plain door with an early 19th-century hood on the ground floor. Additionally, three 20th-century casement windows have been cut into the thatch. The cottage originally had a gambrel roof, but the continuous slope of thatch now disguises its shape. The southwest extension was originally a single storey with a clasped purlin roof but was later converted to a gambrel roof. A floor was inserted in the workshop extension around 1972, and the partition between the ground floor rooms of the original cottage has been removed. Some of the framing is exposed internally, featuring primary straight bracing and some reused timber. The cottage was described in the Statutory List of 23 February 1967 as 'Cottage SW of Salem Cottage'.