The Cottage

The Cottage is a house with origins dating back to the 17th century, located on The Green in Redgrave. It has been extended and altered in the mid to late 19th century. The building features a combination of flint with white brick dressings and colourwashed red brick additions. The roof is hipped, covered with black glazed pantiles at the front and slates at the rear.

The structure consists of a three-bay block with a rear lean-to and service additions, all standing two storeys tall. There are steps leading up to the central entrance, which has a part glazed, part raised fielded six-panel door with a segmental brick head. The facade is made of knapped flint with a white brick storey band and detailing to the bays, an offset plinth, and dentilled brick eaves. Above the entrance is a recessed sash window with three panes on each side and a gauged brick flat arched head.

The outer bays feature full height 19th-century rendered canted bays, with ground floor windows consisting of six, nine, and six pane sashes topped with scalloped hoodboards, and first floor windows with four, six, and four panes. There are axial white brick stacks located behind the outer bays. The rear lean-to on the left side has a two-light segmental headed casement, while the first floor has a three-pane sash window, and there is a two-light corniced box dormer on the rear.

A service range has been added to the rear right in two phases. The two bays closest to the house include an arched through passage and an inner door, while the two rear bays feature an open ground floor with timber uprights, first floor timber studs with brick nogging, and two architraved glazing bar sashes, along with an outer door and a cross axial ridge stack between the two sections. The outer windows include a mix of sashes and casements. The rear gable end wall displays some earlier English bond brickwork, and the gable ends have moulded kneelers at the parapets.

Inside, there is a dogleg staircase with slat balusters, a moulded ramped handrail, and turned newel posts. At the rear, there are two stop-chamfered binding beams with flat joists.