Ballingdon Cottage

Ballingdon Cottage is a house dating from the late 15th or early 16th century, originally designed as an open hall house. It was raised to two storeys and had floors inserted in the 17th century when an internal chimney was added in the hall and a northern bay was either added or completely rebuilt. The interior was renovated around the 1950s. The structure features a timber frame resting on a low brick sill, with red brick infill, chimneys, and ground floor casing at the rear, topped by a steep old red tile roof.

The two-storey house faces west and consists of four structural bays, with a large internal chimney that rises to the rear of the ridge and later external gable chimneys serving the ground floor fireplaces at each end. The windows are flush wooden casements that have been renewed, and there is a battened door leading to a small gabled porch located near the middle of the front. The middle two bays were originally the hall, which, along with the southern service bay, was open to the roof. A former cross-passage ran through the southern end of the hall and was preserved when the fireplace was constructed, with a staircase located behind it. Mortices on the axial beam in the southern bay indicate the line of a former partition. The roof features clasped purlins with curved wind-braces.