Church Cottages

Church Cottages, originally two cottages, were built around 1550 and extended around 1600. The building is two storeys high, with some attic space. It features a timber-framed structure that is plastered, with 19th-century scratched panels that mimic ashlar stonework. The roof is thatched and has a central 17th-century chimney made of red brick, which has been almost completely rebuilt in the 19th century. The windows are small-pane casements from the 19th and 20th centuries, and there is a mid-20th-century framed and boarded door at the lobby entrance.

The right side of the building retains elements from the original 1550-1580 construction, including some reused timber members from around 1530. Notably, a pair of posts is carved with brattishing at the jowl, supporting a moulded first-floor beam. The framing on this side is unmoulded, featuring tension stud-braced studding and a clasped purlin roof. The left side of the building, added around 1600, includes a two-bay parlour cell with well-crafted close studding and a wind-braced clasped purlin roof. This phase also introduced a chimney with a lintelled open fireplace and an arched chamber fireplace.