Clare Cottage

Clare Cottage is a house dating from 1622, as indicated by the initials 'JH and DH' on the fireplace bressumer. It has been altered in the 20th century. The building features a timber frame, with plastered panels and weatherboarding, and is topped with a thatched roof. It consists of two cells with an end stack and is one storey high with an attic. The central entrance is located in a 20th-century thatched gabled porch, and there is an offset brick plinth. The cottage has 20th-century two-light lattice leaded casements and two raking two-light dormers. The right end has a rendered extruded stack with a rebuilt cap. Attached to the left end is a low weatherboarded service outshut with a hipped roof and a weatherboarded gable end. At the rear, there is a 20th-century single-storey flat-roofed addition. Inside, the cottage features a stop-chamfered fireplace bressumer with the original date and initials, as well as 'EA 1765' and 'TE 1785'. Other interior details include a chamfered axial binding beam, cranked arched bracing in the walls, and cambered collars clasping purlins with tension bracing across the rafters.