The Old Cottage

The Old Cottage is a house dating from the early 18th century, with a 19th-century west extension built on the site of a stable and an estate bakery. It features a timber frame on a stuccoed brick sill, with dark weatherboarding and steep tiled roofs. This small, two-storey, two-cell house is set back from the road and originally faced north, with only the eastern room heated. There is a winding stair beside a projecting eastern gable chimney. The entrance is through a porch into the eastern room, which is located where the current bay window is situated. The two-storey west extension has a western gable chimney, and there is a low gabled eastern wing with an entrance door in the eastern outshut. The northern front has three two-light flush casement windows on each floor. To the left of the bay window, there is an early 18th-century leaded plate-casement window with ovolo edge mouldings on the inside. The building is narrow, with joists spanning across, and carpenter's assembly numbers can be found on the joists.