Palmers Cottage South Cottage

Palmers Cottage, also known as South Cottage, is a pair of houses that were originally a single house, dating from the 16th century or earlier. The building is timber framed and plastered, topped with peg tile roofs. It features a complex plan, including a two-storey crosswing on the west side with a hipped roof and a lean-to against its western flank, which has a gabled dormer. To the east is a two-storey 'hall' block with a hipped gablet roof and a ridge line stack, alongside a larger two-storey block at the rear that includes a 20th-century flat-roofed extension clad in white weatherboarding.

The front of the cottage has 19th-century casement windows with cross-pattern glazing bars and remnants of old pargetting. There is a central late 18th-century doorcase featuring pilasters, a frieze with three triglyphs and panels, and a flat hood, which was originally removed from Old Barrington Hall. Both the crosswing and the eastern range were once jettied, with one bracket surviving in each section. The hall block contains arch braces to the tie beams and shows traces of late 16th-century wall paintings. Inside, there is a large repaired inglenook fireplace and integral 16th-century floors throughout. The rear range was originally a single-storey block from the 17th or 18th century that was later raised.