Harvest Cottage

Harvest Cottage is a house dating from the late 14th century, with alterations from the 17th century. It features a hall range that is one storey high with attics, and a two-storey cross-wing on the left. The building is timber-framed and plastered, with some 18th-century herringbone pargetting. The cross-wing has an end jetty facing the road, although much of it has been underbuilt in painted brick; the short jettied section reveals one broad knee. The roofs are thatched, and there is an axial chimney with a shaft that was rebuilt in 20th-century red brick. Additionally, there is a 19th-century internal chimney at the front of the left-hand gable. The windows are 20th-century small-pane sashes, and the entrance door is framed and boarded, also from the 20th century.

The house includes some unusual features that are typically found in urban houses of this period. Notably, there is a dais recess at the left end of the open hall, which is formed within the lower storey of the cross-wing. The first-floor joists of the cross-wing oversail to support a moulded bressumer over the dais. The external jetty is supported by short sections of joist at the front of the first-floor area. The studwork displays prolific tension bracing. The open truss of the hall is somewhat depleted, with thick, steep, unchamfered arch braces, and the tie beam has been removed. The cross-wing, which consists of two bays, has a cambered tie beam at the open truss. There is a large 16th-century open lintelled fireplace that backs onto the former cross-entry, while the right-hand end of the hall range was remodeled in the 17th century. An upper floor was inserted in the late 16th or early 17th century, along with a clasped purlin roof.