Willow Cottage

Willow Cottage is a house dating from the 16th century, constructed in two stages. It has two storeys and a three-cell plan with a cross-passage entrance. The building is timber-framed and plastered, featuring pantiled roofs that were once thatched. A red brick axial chimney, likely from the 16th or early 17th century, is present. The windows are 20th-century casements, and there is a 20th-century gabled entrance porch with a pantiled roof, along with a framed and boarded door; another 20th-century glazed door is located at the cross-passage position.

Willow Cottage is notable for being a rare example of a 16th-century house with a rear aisle, which is an alteration. The original narrow house included a smoke-bay, and a fragment of its coupled-rafter roof remains. In the later 16th century, the lower rear wall was removed to add the aisle to the hall and service cells, and the upper floor was rebuilt. A parlour block was added, featuring close-studding and evidence of diamond mullioned windows, along with a coupled-rafter roof. Inside, there is a large lintelled fireplace built in the 16th century within the old smoke-bay, which has a lintel from a timber-framed chimney of intermediate date. There is also evidence of arched cross-entry doorways from both phases of construction.