Church Cottage And Adjoining House Swallows Nest

Church Cottage and the adjoining house, known as Swallows Nest, is a group of three houses built as one. They date from the early 17th century, with a parlour crosswing on the left and a hall range on the right, which may be older. The building has a three-cell plan. Swallows Nest consists of the crosswing, which is two storeys high, timber-framed and plastered. The first floor juts out at the ends, and the tiebeam at the gable foot also jetties, featuring a fragment of a carved pendant at the left end. The ground storey walling and the left side wall are encased in painted red brick, and the roof is covered with plain tiles. It has two 19th-century small-pane sash windows and a 19th-century boarded entrance door with a glazed panel. The hall range is one storey with attics, timber-framed and fully encased in 19th-century red brick, partly painted. It has a plain tiled roof with one 19th-century gabled dormer. The windows are small-paned casements with timber lintels, and there is a half-glazed 19th-century panelled door along with a framed and boarded entrance door at the lobby-entrance and cross-entry positions, respectively. The interior has not been examined.