Beehive Cottage

Beehive Cottage is a house dating from the early 17th century. It is timber framed and plastered, topped with a thatched half hipped roof. The building has one storey and attics, designed in an 'L' shape with two gabled dormers on the front roof slope. There is a small off-centre gault brick stack and a similar stack on the west gable end. A 19th-century gabled slate roof extension is located at the rear, along with 20th-century casement windows. The projecting front block features a door and an old three-light casement window. Inside, the timber frame is exposed, showcasing straight bracing, halved and bridled scarf joints, and an inserted inglenook stack. It may have originally been a very late open hall house. The east end frame has a reversed assembly, with a later end bay on the projecting front block. There are remains of a 17th-century window above the west end tie beam, which has a moulded cill and a central square section mullion.