Cottage Farm Cottage

Cottage Farm Cottage is a small house dating from the early to mid-16th century, with remodels in the 17th century and alterations in the 19th century. It features a plastered timber frame that is partly faced with brick and whitewashed. The roof is steeply pitched and covered with corrugated iron sheets, with gabled ends and brick stacks at the gable ends.

The building has a two-room plan. The larger room on the left (west) side has a large gable-end fireplace for heating, while the right-hand (east) room is divided axially. The front of this room contains a service area with a later brick stack and oven, and a staircase leads to a small unheated service room at the back. Originally, the left-hand room was an open hall heated by an open-hearth fire, with a solar above the high end of the right-hand room. In the 17th century, a gable-end stack and floor were added to the hall, and the low end may have been demolished in the 17th or 19th century when the high right-hand room was partitioned.

The exterior is one storey with an attic and features an asymmetrical two-window south front with 20th-century top-hung windows. There is a 20th-century wooden porch to the right of the center. The rear wall has a two and three-light casement, with a small casement in the west gable end and a larger one in the east gable.

Inside, the left-hand room (hall) has a chamfered cross-beam with straight-cut stops, a chamfered beam in the partition, and a large brick fireplace with a chamfered timber lintel. The right-hand room features a chamfered axial beam, broad unchamfered joists, and a 19th-century brick fireplace with an oven. The back of this room is partitioned off for a small unheated service room and stairs. Internal doors are made of planks. There is a full-height timber-frame partition between the hall and the high end, with a smoke-blackened chamfered tie-beam on chamfered posts and curved braces. Some wall-plates and wall-framing are exposed.