Cocksedges

Cocksedges is a house dating from the 15th century, with alterations made in the late 16th century. It has one storey and attics, designed as a three-cell open hall house. The structure is timber-framed and plastered, with a pantiled roof that was once thatched. There is an axial chimney made of red brick from the 16th or 17th century, along with another chimney at the right-hand gable. The house features 19th and 20th-century casement windows and a stable-type entrance door from the late 20th century in a single-storey extension at the rear.

Inside, the house retains several original features, including a pair of service room doorways with chamfered four-centred arched heads, although only part of these remains. There is also evidence of a two-centred arched front doorway. The studwork is quite modest, and the roof has smoke-blackened coupled rafters, with the open truss removed except for the storey-posts. The first-floor joists over the service rooms on the left are rough, and there is evidence of six-light diamond mullioned windows in the hall. In the late 16th century, a lintelled open fireplace was added, backing against the cross-entry, and an upper floor was inserted into the open hall with well-crafted chamfered joists. The parlour cell was reconstructed with similar joists and features a lintelled fireplace in the gable; this end of the house was remodeled in the 18th century.