Thorney Green Cottage

Thorney Green Cottage is a house built in two stages, dating from the early 15th century and early 17th century. Originally an open hall house, it retains the service cross-wing, while the hall was largely rebuilt in the 17th century. The building has two storeys and a single storey with attics. A 17th-century bakehouse range, which was originally detached and partially occupied separately, is set forward to the left and was connected in the 19th century.

The cottage is timber-framed and roughcast, with a thatched roof; the cross-wing features a hipped front. An axial chimney made of plastered brick from the 17th century is present in the main range, while the bakehouse has a 17th-century axial chimney with its upper shaft rebuilt in 19th-century red brick, along with an additional external gable chimney of the same material. The windows are mainly 19th-century small-pane casements, with some renewed in the late 20th century. There is a 20th-century boarded entrance door on the side.

The 15th-century cross-wing has complete framing with three bays, and the two service rooms were combined in the 17th century to create a heated parlour. The first storey features an open truss with a cambered tie beam and thick four-centred archbraces, along with a coupled-rafter roof and widely spaced studding that includes both arch and tension windbraces. There is one of a pair of four-centred arched service room doorways. In the hall range, only a few smoke-blackened rafters from the original roof remain, but a wallplate shows a splayed scarf with undersquinted butts that may date to the 14th century. An arched cross-entry doorway is believed to be concealed by the later chimney. The cross-wing's form suggests that the house originally faced east. There are back-to-back open lintelled fireplaces from the 16th or 17th century. In the 17th century, the first floor was fitted with chamfered joists laid flat, and a clasped-purlin roof was added. Blocked diamond mullioned windows from both the 15th and 17th centuries are also present.