Sawford Cottage

Sawford Cottage is a house and former stable that has been converted into a single residence. It dates back to the early 17th century, with a floor added and a chimney installed in the late 17th century. The outer walls were renewed in brick when the house was divided in the 19th century, and it underwent renovations in the 20th century. The structure features a timber frame on a brick sill, which has been largely replaced with red brick that is now painted or roughcast. The roof is steep and covered with old red tiles, half-hipped at the eastern end.

The house has a three-cell layout with an internal chimney and a lobby entry, facing south with its eastern gable aligned with the old building line towards the green. A one-bay former stable is attached to the western end. Originally a single-storey building, a floor was inserted later, along with a large internal chimney to heat the middle room and the chamber above. An external chimney was added to the eastern gable in the 19th century.

The southern front features four flush casement windows, a central gabled porch, and four gabled dormers at the eaves, along with a separate door at the western end. The timber frame of the one-bay former stable retains jowled posts, curved braces to cambered tie-beams, inclined straight queen-posts, and a clasped-purlin roof structure. Inside the house, tie-beams are cut for doorways, with straight braces to the tie-beams, long straight wind-braces, and an exposed eastern gable truss with a collar and peg-holes for studding that has been replaced by brick. The axial beams are roughly chamfered, and there is a large open fireplace on the ground floor with a lintel and narrow bricks forming a half-arch to support the hearth of the chamber fireplace above. The front wall plate features a face-halved bladed scarf joint.