The Old Cottage (Opposite Darrs Lane)

The Old Cottage is a house dating from the 16th century, with an eastern part added in the 17th century. It was renovated and had a single-storey west extension added in 1984. The structure features a timber frame on a stucco sill, roughcast walls, and steep old red tile roofs that are half hipped at the west end. It is a single-cell house facing north, with a large external chimney made of flint and brick on the eastern gable, positioned to allow for a gable entrance beside it.

The eastern extension includes a new lobby entrance from the 17th century, which features a narrow red brick fireplace. The northern front is irregular, with small leaded casement windows that are recessed, and a door located in the middle. Inside, there are jowled posts with curved braces supporting the tie beams, a clasped purlin roof with collar- and queen-strut trusses in the former end walls, and straight wind braces supporting very heavy purlins. The rafters are flat laid, and there are crossbeams along with stop-chamfered axial and floor beams. The building also has mortices for wattle and daub infill and a central four-light diamond mullioned window beneath the tie-beam, as well as a wide open fireplace. The cottage is associated with the novelist Ivy Compton-Burnett.