Orchard Cottage

Orchard Cottage is a house dating from around 1600, with an extension added around 1980. It features a timber frame and roughcast exterior, topped with a steep pitched roof that was originally thatched but is now slated. The building is two storeys high with an attic and has a two-cell layout with an internal chimney and a lobby-entry plan. It faces south and includes a contemporary lean-to rear outshut and a two-storey east extension that matches the original finishes.

The south front has three three-light flush casement windows on each floor, a gabled porch opposite a large chimney, and another chimney on the east extension at the eastern corner. Inside, the cottage has exposed timbers, including jowled posts, unjowled mid-bay posts, and a clasped-purlin roof supported by straight inclined queen-posts. The structure features edge-halved scarf joints, long thin straight tension braces, chamfered axial floor beams with ogee stops, and roughly squared joists. The west room is particularly notable, with a Jacobean scrolled bracket supporting the west end of the floor beam, a principal fireplace with pointed arched recesses in the back, and a winding stair located to the south of the stack. There is also a moulded plank door on the first floor.