Pipers Cottage

Pipers Cottage is a house from the early to mid 16th century that was remodelled in the mid 20th century. It has two storeys and a three-cell cross-entry plan. The building is timber-framed and plastered, with a concrete plaintiled roof that was formerly thatched. There is an axial chimney, which was rebuilt in the 20th century using narrow buff bricks. The windows are mid 20th century casements, and there is a mid 20th century battened and boarded door located at the cross-entry, which features a gabled porch supported by posts.

Inside, Pipers Cottage is an unusual submedieval house with four bays. The end bays contain heavy medieval floor joists, while the first floor over the hall has regular unchamfered joists that appear to date from the mid or late 16th century and may have been added later. The left-hand bay features an archbraced open truss that separates it from the adjacent bay on the first storey. A chimney stack with a very large cambered lintel is positioned against the cross-entry. The roof is a complete coupled-rafter design, half-hipped at both ends, and dates back to the 17th century. When originally built, the house may have been in a "croglofft" form, with a single-bay open hall and an open sleeping loft adjacent to the left, or it could have had a more advanced design with a two-bay chamber extending over both the hall and the parlour.