Kings Head Cottage

Kings Head Cottage is a house dating from the late 15th century. It has a timber frame with wattle and daub infill, and large areas of breeze blocks were added during restoration in 1983. The roof is covered with pantiles. The original open hall plan has been altered to include a lobby entrance, and the building was floored in the 17th century. It stands two storeys high on a brick plinth, with heavy scantling studding. There is a door to the right of the centre under the stack, with one 20th-century casement window on either side and an additional casement window at the south end. The cottage features two 17th-century diamond mullioned timber windows under the eaves, consisting of two and four lights. The gabled roof has two dormers with casements that slope through the eaves, and there is a ridge stack. The rear and both gables have breeze block infill. A square doorway is located next to a segmental window opening on the south side of the rear elevation. A notable four-light diamond mullion window under the eaves has a central mullion that is moulded.

Inside, the timber frame is intact. The fireplace in the north ground floor room has a bressummer and bridging beam with chamfers that end in roll and tongue stops, with similar details in the south room. The cottage features a rare survival of a Queen post roof, with octagonal posts that have moulded bases and capitals; the bases are circular and the capitals are polygonal, both with astragal mouldings. Two pairs of these posts remain. The tie beams originally had large arched braces to the principal studs, which have since been removed, but there are arched braces to the collars and clasped purlins. The central smoke louvre is blocked but can be identified by interrupted rafters and a triangular section ridge piece.