Huntsman And Hounds Cottage

Huntsman and Hounds Cottage is a house, later used as a public house, with an early 16th-century core and significant alterations and additions made in later centuries. The house is timber-framed and mostly covered with roughcast rendering. It has a pantiled roof, hipped on the left-hand side. The building is arranged in an L-shape, with the original section set at right angles to the road. It is two storeys high and has three windows. The ground floor windows are small-paned sashes, while the first-floor windows are 19th-century casements. There are two internal chimney stacks, one located in the rear range. A boarded half-door is found within a small addition that projects forward on the left. The original range has been raised, and a secondary diamond-mullioned window is visible on the ground floor, with evidence of the original mullions located above it. A section on the right-hand side of the front range was added in the late 17th century. A ground-floor fireplace lintol in one room is inscribed "BENJAMIN EDWARDES OCTO YE 1 1663," while an 18th-century fireplace with an eared surround is found in the opposite room.