Rowan Cottage

Rowan Cottage is a house dating from the mid to late 16th century, with significant remodelling around 1800. It features a three-cell cross-entry plan and is one storey high with attics. The building is timber-framed and plastered, topped with a pantiled roof that was originally thatched, and includes a 19th-century pantiled raking dormer. There is an axial chimney, with its shaft rebuilt in 19th-century red brick. The windows are 19th-century small-pane casements, and there is a panelled 19th-century door at the cross-entry position, which has a cantilevered canopy.

The right-hand cell displays complete and interesting framing from around 1550 to 1580, featuring reverse arch windbraced studding. The roof may be of the queenpost type, and the exposed floor joists are chamfered, showing clear evidence of a former timber-framed chimney at the site of the current one. The 17th-century brick chimney has lintelled back-to-back open fireplaces. The two left-hand cells were rebuilt with plain primary-braced studding in the late 18th or early 19th century.