Sayesbury Cottage

Sayesbury Cottage is an early 18th-century L-shaped house located on the west side of London Road. It is timber-framed and plastered, topped with a hipped old red tile roof. The cottage has two storeys and attics, built on a slope, with a northern wing extending to the rear. The ground floor is raised over a high cellar, and there is a half-storey attic above. The house features a lateral stack at the rear and two projecting stacks on the northern wall of the crosswing. In the cellar, there is a base for a large chimney at the junction of the house and crosswing.

The southern flank has a single-storey pantiled lean-to entrance passage that connects to a 17th-century single-storey, two-bay former forge building, which has plastered walls and a red pantiled roof gabled to the street. The central stair has a former central door that is now a window with margin lights. The front has an irregular arrangement of three windows, with a gabled tiled dormer on the southern roof slope featuring a Yorkshire casement, and a gabled lucarne with a 6/6 paned sash over the northern crosswing. The central first-floor sash has three 6-pane sections. There is a large single-storey canted bay window raised for the crosswing, with flush box sashes featuring 6/6 panes and a moulded cornice. A two-storey flat canted bay with timber casements is located on the southern side, along with a two-storey 19th-century flat-roofed extension at the rear.

The front door has flush beaded lower panels and small panes with margin lights, framed by a moulded architrave and a flat hood supported by slender tapered cast iron columns with slender necking at the top. Inside, the cottage features chamfered beams with swept stops, early 18th-century two-panel doors with H hinges, and a mid-18th-century fireplace in the northwest room on the ground floor adorned with Dutch tiles. Sayesbury Cottage is a picturesque part of a group of buildings on the west side of the road.