Brick Wall Cottage, And Number 2/3

This is a house, originally a 16th-century open-hall house, now divided into three separate dwellings. An upper floor and chimney were inserted into the hall, with the date '1632' inscribed on a gabled dormer window. A west crosswing was added around 1660, followed by a north wing in the late 17th century, and a rear wall chimney in the late 18th century, likely when the house was divided into three. A late 20th-century extension has been added to the west end.

The building is timber-framed, with the framing infilled with red brick (painted at number 1), and has steep roofs covered with old red tiles. The south-facing western range (numbers 2 and 3) was originally a two-bay hall with an open hearth, a storeyed bay to the west, a staircase in the northwest corner, and a cross passage at the east end. A large 17th-century chimney, with three tall diagonal shafts rising above the roofline, backs onto the cross passage. There are a large and a smaller gabled dormer window at the eaves, both with leaded casements. The ground floor has irregularly placed casements.

The west crosswing (number 1), built in the 17th century, created a new heated parlour, a chamber, and attic space above. It has one window on each floor of the south gable and one to the attic. There’s a 20th-century gabled porch, leaded windows, and a gabled dormer on the west side. Inside number 1, a wide ground-floor fireplace has a three-centred moulded head, and the room contains an ovolo moulded beam with hollow and nicked stops, and a cavetto and ovolo moulded bracket at the east end. The chamber above has a four-centred moulded fireplace and an ovolo moulded beam. The roof is a clasped-purlin roof with cranked wind braces; the hall range has long curved braces and edge-halved scarf joints with bridled butts in the rear wallplate.