Lushers Cottage

Lushers Cottage is a house dating from around 1600, with later alterations and additions. It features a rendered timber frame and a hipped corrugated iron roof on the right side. The building has an internal left end stack and a later right end stack. The layout is a 2-unit hall-house plan with a pair of service rooms. It stands two storeys tall, with a floor that was likely inserted later. The front has a two-window range of 2-light casements, and on the ground floor, there is a 3-light and a 2-light wood mullion and transom window, along with a plank door to the left set within a lean-to porch. There are additional lean-tos on both ends, while the rear fenestration of casements is obscured by corrugated iron sheeting.

Inside, the cottage has a 3-bay frame with large panel framing and queen post trusses. The 2-bay hall features a central truss with straight braces connecting the queen posts to the collar. The original tie has been removed, and the jowelled posts have been cut back. The service end has a closed truss with a cambered tie beam, and on the ground floor, there are two service doorways likely in their original positions, each with plank doors. The gable-end trusses have arched braces. The first floor appears to have been inserted, with joists supported on triangular sectioned ledges and a reused spine beam that has remnants of a barred chamfer stop at one end. The stack is constructed from a number of unfired bricks.