Tye Cottage

Tye Cottage is a house dating from the 14th and 16th centuries. It is constructed with a timber frame and plastered exterior, topped with a peg tile roof. The building features one bay of a hall and a two-storey crosswing from the 16th century, which is unjettied and has two unequal bays. The crosswing has a gabled front and a hip roof at the rear. The hall includes a large hipped dormer adorned with a 17th-century coved painted timber cornice. The windows consist of 20th-century small pane casements in the crosswing and 19th-century casements with a single horizontal glazing bar in the hall. There is a small chimney stack on the west side of the crosswing's ridgeline, while the east flank of the ground floor is black boarded. The parlour or solar crosswing features stop-chamfered joists, a coupled rafter roof, and a two-light diamond window on its east side. Inside the hall, there is an inserted floor, a painted brick front wall, and a heavily soot-blackened crown post roof with collars notched into the collar purlin. This area represents only the 'high' bay of a former two-bay hall, with one heavy tie beam and an arch brace remaining in place.