Mead Cottage

Mead Cottage is a late 17th-century house that has been altered and extended in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is timber-framed, with parts in red brick and clay lump, and is largely plastered. The steep, pitched roof is covered with black glazed pantiles, with a shallower red pantiled roof on a later addition. Originally a two-cell design, it is one storey with an attic, and has a two-storey bay added to the right. A central door sits to the left of the original entrance, flanked by two-light casements with hoodboards. A Sun Fire Insurance marker is positioned above the door. Two raking dormers are present. The left end is red brick and features an internal axial stack. The addition to the right has two-light casement windows and an internal left-end stack, plus a pentice board on the right end. At the rear is a low clay lump backhouse with a separate roof and an external stack with offsets, along with a 20th-century lean-to addition. Inside, much of the timber frame is concealed, but stop-chamfered joists are visible, along with a reused 16th-century binding beam with roll and ovolo moulding, and collars clasping purlins.