Old Manor Cottage

Old Manor Cottage is a house with a fragmentary late 13th century core that has undergone alterations at several points, primarily in the mid 16th century. It stands two storeys high with four windows and features a timber-framed and plastered exterior. The roof is thatched and includes an axial chimney made of red brick from the 16th or 17th century. The cottage has 18th and 19th century small-pane casements and two entrance doors from the 19th century, one of which is boarded and the other is a four-panelled half-glazed door.

At the right end of the cottage is a four-bay section that dates back to the late 13th or early 14th century. The principal posts in this section have trenches for passing braces, indicating that there were aisles at both the front and rear, which have since been removed. The building features fine splayed and tabled scarf joints with undersquinted butts. The roof structure is of coupled rafter form and its date is uncertain, but it includes slender square-sectioned components and shows light smoke blackening, suggesting an open hearth was used for only a short time. The roof was originally hipped at the right end until the 18th or 19th century, and most of the original tie-beams have been removed.

The 16th century section includes arch windbraced studding with blocked diamond-mullioned windows, and the upper floors from the same period have a massive chamfered binding beam and unchamfered heavy joists, along with open lintelled fireplaces. An early 17th century extension to the left of the chimney likely served as a parlour block and features good framing. There is also a late 18th century extension to the left, which has poor framing and was likely added along with rear outshuts when the house was divided into three tenements. While the medieval elements are rare, their historical significance is diminished by the 16th century remodelling.