Bourne Cottage

Bourne Cottage is a house dating from the 16th century, which was divided in the 19th century. It features a timber frame with a stuccoed sill on the western part and painted brick on the eastern part. The exterior is roughcast with a steep thatched roof, and there is a dark weatherboarded outshut on the west side. The cottage is a small one and a half storeys T-plan hall house that faces south, with a two-storey jettied crosswing on the west and a lean-to outshut beyond it. There is a central chimney at the upper end of the hall next to the crosswing, as well as a later external chimney on the eastern gable. An external chimney on the west end rises through the outshut of the crosswing. The south front features a gabled dormer above the hall, with a window on each side and separate doors leading up steps into the hall and the west wing. These entrances and the separate internal stairs at each end are likely changes made in the 19th century. Inside, the cottage has curved windbraces supporting the clasped purlin roof, tension braces in the rear wall, and a large fireplace in the hall that is partly blocked.