Long Thatch Cottage

Long Thatch Cottage is a house dating from the early or mid 16th century, with alterations made in the late 16th century and probably in 1681. The building has one storey and attics, featuring a three-cell cross-entry plan. It is timber-framed and plastered, topped with a thatched roof that includes a central 17th-century chimney made of red brick. The cottage has two eyebrow casement dormers with leaded lights, various windows including some with diamond mullions, and a large 20th-century bay window with a lean-to plaintiled roof. An open 20th-century plaintiled entrance porch leads to a boarded door.

The heavy framing from the 16th century is notable, especially in the parlour cell on the left, which contains massive unchamfered joists that have been reused from a medieval house. Other medieval elements include wallplates, posts, and a few rafters. In the hall, there is a mid-16th-century first-storey floor made of heavy chamfered joists, with arch windbraced studding. The service cell is slightly later, possibly from the late 16th century, featuring studwork with prominent reverse-arch windbraces, while the on-edge floor joists are a later alteration. The internal plaster bears the date 1681, which likely corresponds to the rebuilding of the roof with clasped purlins and the construction of the chimney with back-to-back open fireplaces.