Culverin Cottage

Culverin Cottage is a house dating from the late 17th century. It has been stripped to its frame, renovated, and a northern crosswing was added in 1985-1986. The building features a timber frame resting on a brick sill, with weatherboarding and a thatched roof. It is a small, one-and-a-half-storey structure with three bays, set back slightly from the road and facing west. The large rectangular northern crosswing extends to the front and rear. The older part of the house has a door into the northern bay, which features a swept dormer over a partition with the middle bay. There is one casement window in the middle bay and another in the southern bay. The frame consists of thin timbers with jowled posts. The middle and southern bays have axial floor beams, while the northern bay has axial joists only. The walls contain long straight tension braces, and the roof structure is supported by clasped purlin trusses with collars. The building was inspected when it was stripped to its frame but was thatched and weatherboarded at the time it was originally listed.