Depewell

Depewell is a cottage dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century, possibly incorporating earlier materials, and was extended in the 19th century. The exterior features painted flint cobbles with brick dressings and brick at the south end, topped by a steeply pitched pantile roof with gable ends. There are rendered axial and gable end stacks.

The building has a three-room plan with an axial stack located between the left and center rooms. The left room was likely added in the 18th or 19th century, while the right-hand room may have originally been unheated. In the 19th century, a two-storey outshut was constructed at the rear left, and in the 20th century, a circa 19th-century outshut was converted into a garden room.

The cottage is one storey with an attic and features an asymmetrical three-window east front. The windows include 19th-century two- and three-light casements with glazing bars, and a 18th-century three-light mullion transom casement on the right. There is a three-light casement in a gabled dormer at the center. The entrance includes a plank door on the left and a 20th-century glazed door to the right of center. At the rear, there is a 18th-century three-light casement with leaded panes at the center and the two-storey outshut on the right.

Inside, the center room has broad unchamfered axial joists with no main beam and a large fireplace featuring a moulded and brattished timber bressummer, which is likely reused, along with ovens that are now partly blocked by a 20th-century brick fireplace. The left-hand room contains an unchamfered cross-beam and joists. The right-hand room has an exposed truss with a tie-beam and struts above. The chambers are ceiled, and the roof space is inaccessible.