Orchard Cottage

Orchard Cottage is a house dating from the mid-16th century. It was altered in the 17th century when a large axial ridge stack was inserted, and again in the 19th and 20th centuries, being reduced in size during the 19th-century alterations. The house is timber-framed and plastered, with a steeply pitched machine tiled roof. Originally it comprised four bays, including a storeyed hall with an upper smoke bay to the left, and service and parlour ends which have since been removed. It is two storeys and has an attic. The windows are 20th-century lattice-leaded casements, with double doors, and the smoke bay contains 20th-century stained glass. A 17th-century axial ridge stack is visible in the smoke bay, made up of three conjoined hexagonal shafts. The left gable has 20th-century stained glass in what was formerly a first-floor fireplace. The right gable end exhibits two lattice lights on the ground floor, alongside exposed 19th-century purlins and evidence of original arched doorways. A 19th-century backhouse is located to the rear right, featuring an external end stack and a later flat-roofed addition. To the rear left is a 20th-century glazed gabled porch, above a fixed six-light metal window. The interior frame has been partially altered and concealed, but retains close studding. On the ground floor are stop-chamfered jowled storey posts with original small arched braces to two stop-chamfered cross axial binding beams. There are also chamfered 4-centred arched adjacent service doorways at the lower end. The first floor showcases reverse curved arched braces in the walling, along with some 17th-century panelling, and a side purlin roof.