The Cottage

The Cottage is a house dating from around 1600, featuring two storeys and a two-cell lobby-entrance plan. It is constructed with a timber frame and plaster, and has an asbestos slated roof that was originally thatched. The house has an axial chimney, with its shaft rebuilt in 19th century red and gault brick. The windows are mid-20th century casements. There is a lean-to entrance porch with Roman pantiles and a glazed door at the lobby-entrance position. The framing is unmoulded and of late 16th or early 17th century style, with unchamfered floor joists laid flat, complete studding, and a clasped purlin roof. Inside, there are back-to-back open fireplaces. The house incorporates many timbers that have been reused from a medieval structure, including a significant cambered tiebeam from the central truss of an open hall, along with evidence of a pair of large archbraces and a queenpost roof.