Thatched Cottages

This is a pair of cottages, formerly known as The Retreat public house until the mid-20th century. They were built in the mid-16th century as a two-cell end-chimney house and were extended to the right in the late 17th or early 18th century. The cottages are one storey with attics, constructed from timber framing and plaster. They have a thatched roof with 19th-century external chimneys at both gables and feature three eyebrow casement dormers. The windows are mostly mid-20th-century casements, some with leaded lights, and there are modern boarded entrance doors for both cottages. Inside, heavy unchamfered floor joists and arch windbraced studding are exposed in the earlier section, and the roof is likely of coupled-rafter form. Significant remodelling occurred around 1970. Until the mid-20th century, there was probably a range from the 16th or 17th century at the north end, attached corner-to-corner.