Church Gate Cottage And Cottage By The Church

Church Gate Cottage and Cottage By The Church are two adjacent houses located on Weston Church Lane, dating from the 17th century with 20th-century extensions at each end. The northern house, Church Gate Cottage, features a dark weatherboarded timber frame with a red brick extension and steep slate roofs. It has 1½ storeys, internal gable chimneys, two 2-light casement windows, and two gabled dormers at the eaves with pierced bargeboards. There is a short weatherboarded extension with a matching roof, a gabled dormer, and a 4-light casement window. A single-storey red brick extension is set back at the northern end, and there is a trellis porch in the middle of the older part. The interior includes stop-chamfered axial beams and a gabled brick 19th-century rear wing.

Cottage By The Church has a small 1½-storey older part at the northern end, which continues the line of Church Gate Cottage. It features a 2-light casement dormer at the eaves of its thatched roof, a 4-light flush-casement window, and a canted rear bay window with small panes. The tall 2-storey thatched southern crosswing has a dark weatherboarded front and southern side, with a roughcast gable triangle that projects only to the front. A chimney rises through the northern roofslope, and there are two windows on each floor of the front gable, with an entrance beside the left-hand window and a 4-panel door. The interior of the older part has exposed framing and axial chamfered and stopped beams. A 1959 photograph from the National Monuments Record shows a window and door in the position of the 4-light window, and scalloped bargeboards on the dormers of the northern house. This group of buildings is significant in the setting of the church.