Honeysuckle Cottage

Honeysuckle Cottage is a house, formerly a parsonage, dating back to the 16th century with later alterations. It incorporates timber-framed, wattle and daub, and flint construction, with red brick facing, and has a thatched roof. Originally comprising two cells with a central chimney bay, a further bay was added to the north later on. The building is two storeys high. The east-facing facade is clad in brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with a rendered axial stack to the left and a hipped roof to the later northern bay. The ground floor of the first cell has a blocked opening and a two-light casement under a segmental arch; the second cell features an early 20th-century bay window and a blocked opening also under a segmental arch. The first floor has three two-light casements. The south return, facing the road, is of broken flint with an offset brick gable and a three-light casement. The north return has a single-storey addition attached to the right, with a rendered gable and an exposed tie beam. The west-facing facade is brick, with 17th-century brick and flint to the lower right quoin, two two-light casements to both ground and first floors, a small opening to the ground floor chimney bay, and a doorway. A lean-to with black glazed pantiles is positioned to the left. Inside, the ground-floor stack is enclosed, and the east facade of the central cell features a first-floor rail. The first floor has a complete exposed timber frame with wattle and daub infill and curved braces to the main trusses, encompassing the stack. A 16th-century four-light opening on the first floor of cell 1 is now blocked, retaining three chamfered lozenge mullions. The roof has been variously renewed, and trusses enclosing the chimney bay have queen struts. A wattle and daub partition sits between the chimney bay and the first cell. The parish of Keswick was merged with Intwood in 1597, and the house served as the parsonage until 1845.