Fox Cottage

Fox Cottage is a house dating from around 1550, originally built with a timber frame. It was altered in the 17th century to create a lobby-entrance plan and extended by one bay in the early 18th century, which includes the cast room. The building was divided into three properties until it was converted back into a single house in the 1950s and underwent restoration in 1998-1999.

The exterior features exposed timber framing and a roof that was without cladding at the time of inspection. The house is one storey with a dormer attic. The north front displays exposed timber framing on the west side, followed by an area of 20th-century breeze blocks, and then two structural bays of timber framing. The frame includes jowled corner studs, sole plates, and wall plates, with inserted floors and middle rails. There are two 20th-century casement windows, one with two lights and the other with three lights, while the remainder of the windows were temporarily removed. The roof has two dormers without windows, and there are central brick ridge and external gable-end stacks. Each gable end features one first-floor 20th-century casement window with two lights. The rear elevation has a late 19th-century brick outshut under a catslide roof, with a half-glazed west door and two 20th-century windows.

Inside, the west room contains a reused chamfered spine beam with tongue stops. The next room to the west has a wide inglenook fireplace made of late 17th-century brick, with a deep plain bressumer and an early 17th-century spine beam featuring sunk quadrant mouldings, along with a brick floor. The east room was originally two rooms; the part towards the center of the house is from the original build and has jowled corner studs, while the eastern part is an addition from the early 15th century. A 19th-century staircase leads to the first floor, which retains some early 18th-century floorboards. The roof structure consists of tie beams, secondary rafters, clasped purlins, and collars, with no fireplaces on the first floor.