Thatched Cottage

House. Dating back to the 16th century, with later additions, this picturesque, long, one and a half storey cottage is formed of two timber-framed sections joined by a later brick and tile central part. The older sections were originally separate houses. They have flint sill walls, plastered fronts with panelled pargetting and weatherboarded aprons. Steep thatched roofs overhang the gables, with two gabled thatched dormers on the wall plate to both the front and rear. A large front gable is made of white-painted brick with a tiled central part. The cottage has six windows and a central door, with a plank door and a similar door to a passage near the south corner. The windows are renewed 3-light timber mullioned windows with leaded lattices, with 2-light dormer windows and a 4-light window in the central gable. A lean-to tiled canopy is supported by shaped brackets over the front door. A central red brick chimney is located to the right of the door, and another chimney is one-third from the north end of the north section. The north part retains the 3-unit plan of a former hall house, featuring a sooted roof in the central bay, a side purlin roof with curved wind braces, heavy curved corner braces and tension bracing exposed in the north wall, axial joists and framing for a stair in the south bay, an inserted floor on an axial beam, and a large central chimney with back-to-back fireplaces and an oven to the rear. The south part consists of two large bays, formerly partitioned, and may have extended further south. This section also has a side purlin roof with wind bracing, long curved arch braces, an edge-halved scarf with bridled-butts in the front wall plate, a south end cross passage partitioned from the ground floor, exposed stop-chamfered joists and beams of the inserted floor, and a former north gable chimney. A fireplace and chimney were built backing onto this chimney when the short brick-built link connecting the sections was constructed.