Wattle Cottage At Tg 2130 0308 C230M West-North-West Of Mangreen Hall

Wattle Cottage is a house located approximately 230 meters west-north-west of Mangreen Hall. It dates from the early 16th century, with additions made in the 18th and 19th centuries. The building is rendered and colourwashed over a timber frame and brick, with a pantile roof. It consists of 6½ bays arranged in 4 sections and is a single storey with an attic.

Bays 3 to 5½ form an early 16th-century timber-framed open hall that includes a smoke bay to the east. Bay 2 is an early 18th-century timber-framed cell, while bays 1 and 6 are of brick from the 19th century, with bay 1 being lower and set back from the front and rear.

The principal facade faces south and features wooden doors and casement windows from the mid-1980s. There is an off-centre axial stack to the left of bay 5 and five raking dormers across bays 2 to 6. Bay 1 has a two-light opening to the left and a stable door to the right, which is sheltered by a swept canopy. Bay 2 has a three-light opening to the left and a wide gabled part-glazed porch to the right. Bays 3 to 5 each have three-light openings, and bay 6 features a stable doorway under a swept canopy.

The left side of the building has a three-light opening on the ground floor and a two-light opening in the attic. The rear includes an outshut behind the smoke bay, a two-light opening at the back of bay 6, and several small inserted openings of two, three, and one light at the rear of bays 3 to 5.

Inside, the core of bays 3 to 5½ retains its 16th-century timber frame, with a 17th-century stack inserted in bay 3 and a new floor added. The former end wall to the north has an opening with two slim lozenge mullions and a central splat mullion, while the former south wall has an opening with an inserted frame. The bridging beam in the north cell (bays 3 and 4) has been renewed, and there is a reused 17th-century tie beam between bay 3 and the former smoke bay, featuring lambs tongue stops at the east end only. The roof has two tiers with clasped purlins and collars, 17-centimeter chamfered principal rafters, a renewed ridge piece, and some repositioned timbers.