Turks Cottage

Turks Cottage is a house that dates back to the late medieval period, reconstructed around 1600, and later subdivided in the 19th century. It underwent restoration in the later 20th century. The building features a timber frame with roughcast exterior and steep old red tile roofs that are hipped at the rear. It is designed in a U shape with two gabled crosswings that project unevenly on the west front. A very large rendered brick central chimney rises through the front roofslope, serving the hall and parlour wing to the north. This chimney is an 18th-century replacement of an earlier timber-framed version but retains moulded fireplace lintels from around 1600.

On the first floor, there are twin 'Tudor' arched chamfered wooden doorways leading into the chambers in the north wing. The unusual layout includes a service room, possibly a dairy, to the east of the large parlour, with a staircase rising to the east of the chimney and an entrance likely located at the south end of the hall. The two-storey west front has one window in each crosswing on both floors, and two windows in the recessed centre to the right of the projecting brick flank of the chimney. The windows are long, low, two-light leaded casements that have been renewed. The framing observed in the upper floor suggests that the earlier house was of Wealden type.