Laundry Cottage

Laundry Cottage is a house dating from about 1500. A floor was inserted and the building extended or partially rebuilt around 1600, it was raised in the late 17th century, further extended or partially rebuilt in the 19th century, and altered in the 20th century. The house is timber-framed and plastered with a steeply pitched glazed pantiled roof. Brick and red pantiled additions are also present. Originally a small two-bay open hall, a parlour and stack were added, possibly replacing an upper cross wing. The building was raised to appear as a three-cell lobby-entry plan, and a 19th-century service bay replaced an earlier service end.

The house has two storeys and attics. A 20th-century gabled porch fronts a 19th-century lobby entrance, positioned to the left of the centre. There are 20th-century three-light glazing bar casements on the ground floor; the first floor has 19th-century hoodmoulds. A rebuilt ridge stack sits between the hall and parlour, slightly left of centre. On the left end, an attic window has five lights with diamond mullions, pentice boards, exposed plates, and purlins. A lower two-storey 19th-century service bay is on the right end, above which are exposed plates and purlins and an attic window. The rear features a continuous lean-to outshut with red pantiles, a central 20th-century gabled projection, and a restored five-light diamond mullioned window above the lean-to.

The interior of the screens passage retains sections of four-centred arched door heads and two doorways to the service end. The hall features exposed straight bracing halved over studs, an inserted ogee stop-chamfered cross axial binding beam and joists, remnants of original tall six-light diamond mullioned hall windows, a two-light opening over the screens passage, arched bracing in the walls. The original open truss has chamfered arched braces to a cut cambered tie beam with a crown post mortice. The upper end of the hall has fragmentary sections of timber suggesting an original cross wing, while the 17th-century roof has collars and halved principals clasping purlins. The parlour displays close studding, a stop-chamfered axial binding beam, joists, and a mid-rail. The first floor has straight arched bracing in the walls, a stop-chamfered cross axial binding beam, a two-light diamond mullioned window opening in the stack bay, lower butt purlins, and upper collars to clasped purlins with straight windbraces.