Lodge Cottage

Lodge Cottage is a house, likely dating from the early 16th century, with extensions around 1600, 1700, and the mid-20th century. It has a three-cell plan with a rear service wing added around 1700. The house is one storey high with attics. It is timber-framed and plastered, with a thatched roof that is hipped at the right-hand end. There are two 19th-century casement dormers in the roof, and an axial chimney built of pink and buff brick. The windows are small-pane casements from the 19th and 20th centuries. A gabled porch, likely from the late 19th or early 20th century, has an 18th or early 19th century two-panelled door at the entrance position.

The cottage is a rare example of a small house, probably not built after around 1550. Originally an open hall house with a cross-entry at the present front entrance, it features heavy, widely-spaced studwork and a smoke-blackened coupled-rafter roof. A single-cell extension to the right retains mid-16th century timber framing and a blocked diamond mullioned window. An inserted floor in the hall reuses several heavy medieval joists. Around the late 16th or early 17th century, a further cell was added to the left, with unchamfered floor joists and a clasped purlin roof; the chimney was likely inserted into the cross-entry at this time. A service wing dating from around 1700 is located to the rear, featuring well-pegged primary braced studwork and a clasped purlin roof. A mid-20th century flat-roofed single-storey extension to the left does not hold any particular architectural significance.