St Ambrose Cottage

St. Ambrose Cottage is a house dating from around 1600, featuring a three-cell cross-passage entrance plan and two storeys. The building is timber-framed and plastered, topped with a thatched roof and an axial chimney made of red brick from the 17th or 18th century. The cottage has 20th-century casement windows with leaded glazing, and to the left in the parlour, there is a square bay window also with a thatched roof. There are two 19th-century boarded entrance doors, each sheltered by a thatched open porch supported by posts. The cottage showcases good exposed framing, including chamfered floor joists and closely spaced studding in the parlour. It features one mullioned window with roll- and-cavetto mullions and another with ovolo mouldings. Inside, there are back-to-back open lintelled fireplaces, with alterations indicating that the original chimney may have been of an earlier design. In the hall, the top rail from a plank-and-muntin cross-passage screen remains. The roof is constructed with wind-braced clasped purlins.