Nash Cottage

Nash Cottage is a house dating from the 16th century, initially an open-hall house. Around the mid-17th century, a floor was inserted into the hall and a chimney was added. An 18th-century lean-to porch was built on the south side. The house is timber-framed, with a plastered brick plinth. The south and east sides have plastered panels, the west end is roughcast, and there is a roughcast outshut. It has a steep thatched roof and is one-and-a-half storeys high, with a three-cell layout. The building faces south, with a large chimney positioned a third from the west end. The entrance is through a southwest lean-to porch, which has a brick oven projecting under the stairs on the south side of the chimney stack. A single-flue external chimney of probable 19th-century origin is at the east end. The south front has three small-paned flush casement windows and two wide bays of exposed timber framing with a mid-height rail. A small dormer with a red tiled apron is set into the eaves. The west end is roughcast, featuring side purlins, a boarded door, and a flush three-light casement window on each floor. Inside, the timber frame is exposed, revealing jowled posts and straight braces to cambered tie beams. The roof is soot-blackened and has clasped purlins with straight wind-braces, supported by collar trusses. There’s a straight-butted scarf joint in the wallplate, secured with two edge pegs. Axial beams are visible in all three cells. The chimney and stairs are located at the lower end of the hall, and the parlour end is one step higher. A moulded plank door leads to the stair. The inserted floor in the hall has joists that are chamfered and stop-chamfered with run-out stops.