Abbey Farm Cottage

Abbey Farm Cottage is a Grade I listed building located in Thetford. Originally outbuildings, it was converted into a farmhouse at the west end in the mid-19th century, while the remainder has been used as farm buildings and is now a store. The structure dates back to the late 13th century and features a timber frame with a 19th-century flint skin and gault brick dressings, along with re-used medieval fragments and coursed clunch. The roof is thatched with some slate.

The cottage is one storey with an attic, previously just one storey. The north side has two 19th-century cart entrances with segmental heads and three doorways with overlights and skewback arches. The gabled roof includes two gabled dormers at the east end, a ridge stack left of centre, and two stacks at the west end, one on each roof slope. The south side has more coursed clunch, a blocked cart entrance, and various 19th-century windows, along with two gabled dormers to the east. The west gable features the entrance to the farmhouse, with a central door flanked by two sashes with 6/6 glazing on either side, and three similar sashes on the first floor.

Inside, the house has a stick baluster staircase. The central third of the house retains evidence of a 13th-century aisled hall structure, including arcade posts with arched braces to tie beams and arcade plates, as well as queen posts on the tie beams with arched braces to collars and purlins, all made from very heavy scantling. The eastern third contains two remaining arcade posts embedded in later partition walls.