Inglenook

Inglenook is a cottage from the 18th century, with a 20th-century extension. It is timber-framed and plastered, with a thatched roof. The building has three bays aligned northeast-southwest, featuring an original brick chimney stack at the southwest end of the middle bay and an original stair between the middle and northeast rooms. There is a second stair in the southeast corner. The 20th-century rear extension is single-storey, while the main structure is single-storey with attics. It has two 20th-century casement windows and a plain door, along with two additional 20th-century casement windows in the thatch. The roof is half-hipped at the southwest end and gabled at the northeast end. Inside, the framing is exposed, with posts that do not have jowls, straight tiebeams, and primary straight bracing in the walls. The stub tiebeams between the middle and northeast bays are properly jointed into a strong door-frame, indicating that this has always been the access to the upper middle room. The southeast stair may also be original, as there is no other access to the upper southwest room. The original door is said to have been located immediately southwest of the foot of the main stair, but it is now blocked, and the current door is in the southwest bay. Inglenook is noted for being an unusually intact example of its type.