Cuckoo Hill

Cuckoo Hill is a house dating from the late 16th century. It is timber framed and plastered, topped with a thatched roof. The building has two storeys and an attic, arranged in a three-cell form. There are various casement windows, mostly from the 18th and 19th centuries. A 20th-century thatched porch features a boarded door. At the back, there is a small pantiled wing, which has been altered and is likely from the 17th century. Inside, there is an internal stack with a 20th-century common brick shaft and a modernized interior. The exposed framing shows cranked corner bracing. In the service cell, there is an original window with diamond mullions, along with evidence of other windows at the first-floor level. The ground floor joists are plain. The roof contains a single row of clasped purlins and arched wind-bracing. A portion of the stack is exposed and made of under-fired or unfired brick. In the parlour, there is an 18th-century fireplace with bolection moulding.