Southwood Cottage

Southwood Cottage is a former farmhouse dating from the mid to late 16th century. It is two storeys high and has a three-cell plan. The building is timber-framed and pebbledashed, topped with a pantiled roof featuring an axial chimney made of red brick. This chimney dates from the late 16th or early 17th century, although the shaft was rebuilt in the 19th century. The first storey has 19th-century casement windows, while the ground storey features mid-20th-century casements. There are two mid-20th-century entrance doorways, one located at the gable end, which includes a pantiled open porch. Until the mid-20th century, the house was divided into two cottages. Much of the timber framing is concealed, but some 16th-century unchamfered floor joists can be seen laid flat. Inside, there is a queenpost roof with square-set triangular-sectioned purlins.