Kopsey Cottage

Kopsey Cottage is a house dating back to the 15th century, with alterations made in the 17th and later centuries. It has a cross-entry plan, originally with three rooms. The house is timber-framed and plastered, with a thatched roof that is hipped at the right-hand end. There are two recessed eyebrow dormers containing 19th-century casement windows. A red brick chimney was built in the 18th century and was later entirely rebuilt. 19th and 20th-century small-pane casement windows are also present. A 19th-century lean-to extension with a pantiled roof, containing the entrance door and a pantiled gabled porch, sits to the left. The roof structure is unusual, featuring a smoke-encrusted medieval coupled-rafter roof over the two-bay hall and over the single-storeyed cell to the right. The cell to the left has a gabled clasped purlin roof from the 17th century. An open truss was removed from the hall when an upper floor was inserted in the 17th century. The original wall framing from the 15th century is largely complete.