Priory Cottage

Priory Cottage, formerly known as Black Houses, is a Grade II listed house located on Half Moon Lane in Redgrave. This building dates from the early to mid 16th century and was later converted into two dwellings. It underwent significant alterations in the early 17th century, including the insertion of a stack and floor, the addition of a parlour, and further changes in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The structure is timber-framed and plastered, topped with a thatched roof. Originally, it consisted of four bays, featuring a two-bay open hall and two storeyed bays to the left. A stack was inserted in the right bay, with two parlour bays added to the right. The cottage is one storey with an attic, displaying scattered 20th-century casements and a glazed door to the left, along with three two-light eyebrow thatched dormers. There is a rebuilt ridge stack positioned to the right of centre and an internal kitchen stack added to the left end. At the rear, there is a restored first-floor diamond mullioned window, three dormers, and two lean-to outshut additions.

Inside, there is evidence of a partition with a single doorway between the two original storeyed bays. The hall features an inserted stop-chamfered axial binding beam with a mortice in the post for the original open truss arched brace. The parlour includes chamfered storey posts and an ogee stop-chamfered cross axial binding beam. On the first floor, the open truss arched braces and tie beam have been removed, but a square crown post remains, extending down to the binding beam. There are arched braces to the collar purlin and a closed truss at the left end of the hall, with a clasped purlin roof over the parlour addition.