The Cottage

The Cottage is a house with origins in the 16th century and remodelling in the 17th century. It features a timber frame and plastered exterior, topped with a pantiled roof. The building is 1½ storeys high and has a two-cell, lobby entry layout. It has two mid-20th century tripartite casement windows and two gabled dormers with two lights each, along with a flush rooflight in between. A central gabled porch, added in 1976, contains a plank door set into the side wall. The chimney stack has a mid-20th century shaft. There are also one-storey flat-roofed additions from 1976 on the right gable end and at the rear.

Inside, the structure has a three-bay frame with a narrower central bay for the stack, and there are breaks in the wallplates at each bay division. The interior features heavy full-height studding and reverse-curved braces in both cells, with some timbers showing signs of reuse. The right cell has two diamond-mullioned windows, likely secondary, located just above the upper floor level, and there is evidence of a blocked doorway in the rear wall near the gable end. The ground floor rooms have plain ceiling joists; the joists in the right room are pegged to the floorbeam, while those in the opposite room are not. The left room retains an intact open fireplace with its original lintel. The roof over the left cell is a side purlin roof, probably from the 17th century, while the roof over the right cell has not been examined.