Bourne Cottage

Bourne Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century, with Gothic features added in the early 19th century. It has a timber-frame structure that is roughcast above a stuccoed plinth, topped with gabled thatched roofs. The building consists of a one-storey hall range facing east and a one-and-a-half-storey jettied crosswing on the north that extends far to the rear.

There is a six-panelled flush beaded door next to the crosswing, which has a heavy frame and a moulded flat hood supported by large console brackets. The hall range features a three-light flush 19th-century casement window, and the crosswing has similar windows on each floor. The bressumer has delicate dentilled decoration, and there are small chamfered braces at each end. The joist ends are thin and squared. The verge has a scrolled wooden bargeboard with a moulded pendant at the apex.

Bourne Cottage is a picturesque historic thatched house situated in a dramatic position above the road cutting, contributing to the varied group of buildings at this end of the High Street.