Crooked Cottage

Crooked Cottage is a house dating from the late 15th century, with a floor and stack added in the early to mid 17th century, and further alterations made in the 20th century. It features a timber frame with Fletton brick casing, all of which is plastered and whitewashed. The cottage has a thatched roof and was originally designed as a two-bay open hall with a lower storeyed bay. It has one storey and an attic, with 20th-century leaded casements of one and two lights, two raking dormers, and a ridge stack with a rebuilt cap inserted in the upper bay to the left. The left gable end has a two-light attic casement, while the right gable end has an entrance and 20th-century casements.

Inside, there are traces of a service doorway, and the original plain joists of small scantling can be seen, along with a trimmer to the rear in the service or solar bay. The hall features arched braces to an open truss that springs from below the inserted floor, along with a stop-chamfered axial binding beam and bar stop-chamfered joists. The parlour has a chamfered axial binding beam and altered walling. The first-floor frame is largely concealed. An open truss remains, featuring a square crown post with a simply roll and hollow moulded cap and base, and four-way two-centred arched braces. There is thick smoke blackening on the original rafters of small scantling, and the lower end of the hall has a closed truss, while the end bays have largely been reroofed in the 17th and 20th centuries.