The Cottage

The Cottage is a house dating from the early 16th century, featuring one storey and attics. It is designed as a three-cell open hall house, constructed with timber framing and plaster, and has a pantiled roof that was once thatched. The building includes two raking casement dormers and has an external end chimney made of red brick at each gable. The windows are small-pane casements from the 19th or 20th century, and there is a boarded entrance door from the 20th century, set beneath an open gabled porch supported by posts.

Inside, the two-bay hall reveals one of a pair of 4-centred arched doorways leading to service rooms. The service cell to the right features lodged unchamfered floor joists and heavy studwork that is rather widely spaced. The open truss in the hall has a pair of posts showing evidence of archbracing, and the uncambered tiebeam has been slightly repositioned for a chimney that has since been removed. There is smoke encrustation at roof level, indicating that the roof was rebuilt in the 17th or 18th century while reusing blackened rafters.