Nursery Cottage

Nursery Cottage is a house, originally divided into three cottages, dating to the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. It is located on Flixton Road, near Bungay. The front is of painted brick, with a 19th-century appearance, and the roof is covered in black glazed pantiles. It has 3-light casement windows with a horizontal bar to each light, set within segmental arched frames and surrounds. The ground floor windows are larger than those above. A 19th-century enclosed and gabled porch shelters a plank door with a stained glass panel. There are three chimney-stacks, two at the ends and one internal, all with simple rebuilt shafts, a band, and a projecting course at the top. Three 19th-century gabled extensions at the rear relate to the conversion into cottages.

Inside, the timber framing is visible, and the building shows evidence of considerable alteration and complex development. The central two-bay section appears to be the oldest part of the house. An internal chimney-stack was added later, and it contains plain joists and a 4-light diamond-mullioned window on the ground floor. Above the stack is a queen-post roof spanning two bays, with indications of a third. A wide, straight Georgian staircase was inserted adjacent to the stack. To the left end is a parlour and a room above, built slightly later than the centre: these feature joists with chamfer and run-out stops, a main beam with lamb's tongue stops, a gable-end fireplace with a timber lintel and 17th-century brickwork, an original upper fireplace, and diamond-mullioned windows. The roof in this section has clasped purlins and windbraces. The right end section was originally roofed at a lower level with full principal rafters cut away to accommodate clasped purlins, before a 19th-century roof was installed to match the rest of the building.