No. 1 Croft Cottages And The Cottage

This is a timber-framed and rendered house, divided into two dwellings, dating to the early 17th century, with indications of an earlier core. The left gable end has colour-washed brick in a rat-trap bond pattern. The roof is thatched with a decorated ridge, half-hipped on the left side. There is an internal chimney stack with a plain shaft of old red brick, and an external stack with a rendered shaft on the right gable. The house has two storeys and attics, and a three-cell form. The windows are mainly 2-light, small-paned casements from the 20th century, along with a plank front door. A small, single-storey extension with Roman tile cladding projects from the left end, and was formerly the parish Reading Room.

No. 1 Croft Cottage occupies approximately two-thirds of the building, divided into two cells internally. To the left of the stack, two bays show evidence of alterations, including the removal of a tie-beam, housings for a former 4-light diamond-mullioned window on the upper front wall, and ground floor ceiling joists resting on clamps, suggesting they were inserted later. The large main beam has a chamfer with lamb's tongue stops. To the right of the stack, the end wall reveals good close-studding and long arched braces. There is an open fireplace with a plain timber lintel on the ground floor, and a small upper fireplace. The attic to the left of the stack has a clasped purlin roof which may be a replacement. The filling occupies the third cell with a 2-light window to the upper floor and a 3-light window to the ground floor, both 20th century casements with arched heads. A single-storey lean-to on the gable end contains a 20th century plank entrance door.

Inside, there is good close-studding. A blocked 4-centred doorway with arched spandrels is visible in the partition wall. The ground floor ceiling has heavy, unchamfered joists, along with a chamfered main beam with run-out stops and small solid supporting braces. The gable-end fireplace has a plain cambered lintel with chamfer and run-out stops. Beside it are the remains of a 3-light diamond-mullioned window, and evidence for another window above. Rafters are exposed in the attic.