Fleurael Cottage

Fleurael Cottage is a house that was later divided into two dwellings. It dates from the late 16th century, with earlier origins, and was partly rebuilt in the early 17th century. The building underwent alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. It features a timber frame that is plastered, with thatched roofs.

The structure has a two-bay stack and a parlour addition on the right, while the earlier hall on the left has been mostly rebuilt as two storeyed bays. The right side has two storeys, while the left side has one storey and an attic. The left bays include a central boarded door, a part opening metal frame three-light casement to the right, a 20th-century casement to the left, and an eyebrow thatched dormer. There is also a part opening metal frame three-light casement, partially leaded. On the right side, there is a boarded door leading into the parlour, which has a two-light glazing bar casement and a single hoodboard.

On the first floor, in the stack bay to the left, there is a small three-light ovolo mullioned window with intermediate small diamond mullions. The axial ridge stack is cement rendered and has been rebuilt at the cap. The left end attic features a three-light glazing bar casement, with exposed plates and purlins. The right end has a pantiled lean-to outshut, with a first-floor four-light diamond mullioned window and exposed plates and purlins. At the rear, there is a door on the right that replaces a window, along with two glazed lean-to outshuts, one of which is pantiled.

Inside, the parlour contains a stop-chamfered cross axial binding beam, close studding with a chamfered mid-rail, and a stop-chamfered fireplace bressumer. The parlour chamber features an arched brace to the tie beam and reverse curved arched bracing in the walls. The hall and service bays have stop-chamfered jowled storey posts supporting a pegged bar and ogee stop-chamfered cross axial binding beam. The studding in these areas is more widely spaced, with four-light diamond mullioned window openings on both storeys, an arched brace in the front wall, and edge halved scarf joints in the wall plates. There is evidence of a removed tie beam, possibly for the original open truss. The roofs have not been inspected.