Cottons Cottage

Cottons Cottage is a 16th-century cottage located on the north side of The Street in High Easter. It features a timber frame with plaster and a gabled peg tile roof. Originally a two-bay in-line open hall house, it has a 20th-century extension at the east end. The cottage is one storey high with attics and includes three gabled dormers on the south roof slope. There is a large chimney stack at the west end with wide offsets, and a single-storey west extension also with a gabled peg tile roof. The windows are 19th and 20th-century casements. Inside, there is a complete parlour/hall partition with bench peg holes and two door openings, long curved interval wall bracing, and a 16th-century floor with stop-chamfered joists. This cottage is a notably small example of a hall house that has had its eaves line raised at a later date.