The Cottage

The Cottage is a house dating from the 16th century, with alterations made in the 18th and 19th centuries. It has a three-cell plan and may have originally featured a lobby entrance. The building is one storey high with attics, constructed from timber framing and plaster, and topped with a thatched roof. There is an eyebrow casement dormer and a 17th-century axial chimney made of red brick, while a gable chimney on the right was added in the 19th century. The late 19th-century sash windows have large panes. At the left-hand gable, there is a 20th-century apsidal entrance porch with a thatched roof and a boarded and battened door. The plain framing of the house is extensively exposed. Inside, the service room has an inserted 18th-century first floor, suggesting it may have originally lacked an upper level. The parlour cell on the left appears to be a 17th-century or early 18th-century extension, indicating that the house may have originally consisted of only two cells.