Rectory Gate Cottage

Rectory Gate Cottage is a house dating from the early 17th century, likely serving as a crosswing to a larger house that may have extended to the north. The northern wing was added in 1952, and an eastern extension was completed in 1981. The cottage features a timber frame set on a low black plinth, with a roughcast exterior and steep thatched roofs adorned with decorative ridges. The extensions match the original style and finishes.

The original 17th-century section consists of two storeys and two structural bays, facing south and set back from the road to the west. The front has two three-light flush casement windows on the first floor, a 20th-century gabled enclosed porch to the left, and a casement window to the right. A large projecting eastern gable chimney is now enclosed within a small two-storey extension to the east. The western gable facing the road features a scalloped bargeboard, a canted casement bay window with a hipped red tile roof, a two-light casement window above it, and a single small stair window. The lower one-and-a-half-storey northern rear wing has a two-light casement window and an eyebrow dormer above.

Inside, the cottage showcases exposed timber framing with close-studding on the first floor, stepped-jowl posts, convex curved tension braces at the corners, straight braces to the tie-beams, and a clasped-purlin roof with straight wind-braces. The tie-beam and collar trusses include straight inclined queen-struts, and there is a heavy cross-beam on the floor along with axial chamfered beams featuring hollow stops. The chimney is constructed of narrow 17th-century brick in English bond with tumbled offsets.