House Adjoining May Cottage On West

This house, located next to May Cottage on the west, dates back to the 16th century. Originally a single dwelling, it was converted into two cottages in the 19th century but has since been restored to a single house. The structure features a long, narrow timber frame with four structural bays, set on a rendered and painted sill wall facing south. The rear wall is plastered and single-storey, topped by a very steeply pitched gabled roof that is now slated. The front has two storeys and is clad in white weatherboarding, with a flatter pitched slated roof. The west gable is also weatherboarded, and there is a west lean-to garage with a pantiled roof and a clay lump rear wall.

Inside, paired tension braces are exposed in the eastern end wall, and an original close-studded partition separates the eastern bay. The western bay, likely originally a smoke bay, retains a heavy lintel or tie beam that spans the width of the house, deeply chamfered on the west side. This beam probably supported a timber-framed chimney. Stop-chamfered axial beams support a floor that was inserted in the three eastern bays, likely in the 17th century. A red brick central chimneystack with back-to-back fireplaces and a winding stair on the north side was added later, and the old smoke bay was floored over. A steep stair in the southeast corner of the house was present until recently. The subdivision of the house, the two-light small paned wood casement windows, the raising of the front wall, and the rebuilding of the chimney cap in yellow stock bricks all occurred in the 19th century. There are half-glazed front doors into each half of the house, with dripboards over the ground floor windows.