Porch Cottages Tudor Cottage

Porch Cottages and Tudor Cottage is a terrace of three cottages that were originally one house, dating from the late medieval period, with alterations made in the late 16th century and late 19th century. The building has one storey with attics, and the central section originally featured an open hall. It is constructed with timber framing and plaster, topped with pantiled roofs that include 19th-century casement dormers. There are internal and end chimneys made of red brick. Each cottage has 19th-century small-pane casements and boarded entrance doors, along with an open pantiled one-storey gabled porch supported by wooden posts. Nos. 1 and 2 Porch Cottages were part of the original open hall, with soot-encrusted rafters that were reused in the 16th-century wind-braced clasped purlin roof. Tudor Cottage includes a small original end cell with a lodged upper floor, which was extended to the right in the 16th and 17th centuries. During the 16th century, a large chimney and upper floor were added to the hall. The house was later subdivided, and gabled rear wings were added to each cottage in the late 19th century.