The Cottage

The Cottage is a house dating from the early 16th century, with a lower section to the right that may be from the later 16th century. It has one storey and attics, constructed with timber framing and plastered. The thatched roof is hipped at the left end and features a plastered axial chimney. The windows are 20th-century casements with leaded lights, and there is a 20th-century oak-framed entrance porch with a plain-tiled roof and a boarded door. The fully-exposed framing is of good quality, particularly given the small size of the house, featuring close studwork and heavy unchamfered first-floor joists. The original service end partition has been removed, and knees have been added to support the remaining first-floor beam, with one knee carved with the date 1774. A large open fireplace was inserted into the hall in the 17th century. The lower single-cell block to the right is of slightly inferior quality and from a different date; the current upper floor was added in the 18th or 19th century, suggesting that this may have originally been an open hall from the early 16th century or earlier. There are various 20th-century extensions to the rear.