The Cottage

The Cottage is an early 18th-century house, originally comprising four cottages and a parish reading room, with 19th-century additions. It is constructed of red Flemish bond brick with fired headers, timber framing with rendered infill, and a plain tile roof, likely originally thatched. The building is single-storey with an attic.

The front originally presented as four cottages, each pair sharing a porchway. The central three bays include a doorway with a 20th-century door and cambered head, originally an open triangular porch with two inner doors. To the right is a 19th-century projecting bay window with a lean-to roof and a central two-light cambered-headed window. To the left is a 20th-century replacement window of 3x3 sash panes. The left-hand section was originally similar, but the central doorway has been removed and blocked, replaced by a casement window of 3x3 panes. A further square 19th-century bay has been added on the left, mirroring the one on the far right. Casement windows of 3x3 panes with cambered heads are located at either side of the centre. The lower walling on the front incorporates fired headers, which cease above window head level, suggesting a later addition. Four gabled 19th-century dormer windows are set into the roof, each featuring a two-light casement window and decorated bargeboards. Three 19th-century axial chimney stacks rise from the ridge, with two flues each and square stacks supporting diamond-section flues. The gabled ends have brick kneelers with moulded brick coping.

At the rear, a central two-storey gabled wing of 20th-century construction contains moulded brick kneelers. Single-storey outshuts are positioned to either side of this wing, and at the far right is a projecting single-storey gabled wing that served as the parish reading room from around 1880 to around 1920; it has since been subdivided into a separate flat.

The interior features chamfered ceiling beams on the ground floor. The rear wall exhibits studding with bracing, and a wall plate is visible in the first-floor corridor.