Wellgate Cottage

Wellgate Cottage is a house, now divided into two dwellings, dating from the 16th century. It is timber-framed with wattle and daub, rendered and colourwashed, and features a steep pantile roof. The building has two and a half cells and one and a half storeys, with several lean-to additions from the 18th to the 20th centuries on the north, west, and east sides.

The west facade has a steep hipped roof on the left and an axial stack off centre to the right. There is a clay lump lean-to on the left and a rendered lean-to on the right. The area between the lean-tos has a brick plinth and timber studs. It also features two 19th-century gabled dormers with casement windows. The left return (north) has an 18th-century lean-to made of colourwashed brick with very narrow studs, while the return wall is made of clay lump. The right return (south) has a lower wall of 18th-century brick with coloured headers, and the attic gable has been rendered and rebuilt. It includes 20th-century casements and a bay window.

The east facade has two gabled dormers with casements above a late 20th-century lean-to that encases the original frame. Inside, there is a double fireplace in the central stack, with the southern cell containing a bread oven and the northern cell featuring timber studs partitioning off a left recess. There is a small semi-circular headed opening approximately 25 centimeters high leading to a former outside wall. The north cell has an ogee stepped bridging beam and two 4-centred doorways in wood leading to a half cell to the north, with a stair to the right. The half cell to the north is likely an early lean-to that has been raised and has a hipped roof.