Thatched Cottage

Thatched Cottage is a 14th-century cottage located in Great Easton, Little Cambridge. It is a single-storey building with attics, constructed from timber framing, with parts rendered and parts covered in black weatherboarding. The roof is thatched, hipped at the east and gabled at the west, with a later 1.5-storey extension at the rear. There is also a lean-to extension on the north side that contains remnants of an earlier aisle. The windows are 20th-century metal casements featuring single horizontal glazing bars. Originally an open aisled hall-house, it has a later inserted inglenook fireplace, likely from the 17th century. The eastern wall framing displays open lap joints, widely spaced large studs, jowless posts, and 'reversed assembly' at the eaves, along with remnants of the soot-blackened collared roof that have been reused.