Verlam Cottage

Verlam Cottage is a house, originally comprising four cottages, now unified into a single dwelling. The core of the building dates to the early 17th century, with brick casing and subdivision occurring in the late 18th century. A rear wing was added and the house was subsequently reconfigured into a single residence in the later 20th century. The house is timber-framed, with red brick ground floor walls laid in a Flemish bond, and the upper floor cased in brick-on-edge. It has a steep roof covered with old red tiles. The front of the house, facing east, is two storeys high and six windows wide. It is set well back from the road and features six two-light small-pane sliding Yorkshire casements under the eaves, and four three-light windows on the ground floor, all with cambered arches. Two blocked plank doors and two openings with similar arches are also set within heavy frames. The rear of the house has cast-iron small-pane casements in heavy wooden frames. There are two large square internal chimneys; the southern chimney is older, suggesting it may be a remnant of an original three-cell lobby-entry plan arrangement from the 17th century. Inside, the house retains chamfered axial beams with hollow stops, jowled posts, and a clasped-purlin roof with straight wind-braces and a squint-butted scarf joint in the wallplate.