Church Cottage

Church Cottage is a house dating from the mid 16th century. It has one storey and attics, featuring a three-cell cross-entry plan. The structure is timber-framed and plastered, with a pantiled roof that was once thatched. There are gabled 20th-century casement dormers and an axial chimney, with the shaft rebuilt in 20th-century red brick. The windows include a 16th-century ogee moulded mullioned window that is exposed and glazed, as well as an early 17th-century ovolo-mullioned window located in the parlour. A 20th-century half-glazed panelled door is situated on the garden side at the cross-entry position, along with a 20th-century gabled entrance porch at the lobby-entrance position featuring a panelled door.

Inside, the cottage displays typical heavy mid-16th-century framing throughout, with unchamfered square-sectioned floor joists. There are a pair of 4-centred arched doorways leading to the service rooms, one of which has been restored. The roof has clasped purlins with windbracing only at the gable. A heavy collarbeam truss is centrally located over the hall, replacing a tie beam. There is evidence of a timber-framed chimney where the current one stands, which dates to around 1600 and features back-to-back lintelled fireplaces. The cottage was restored around 1980 after a period of dereliction, during which the service cell was rebuilt and other alterations were made.