Garden Cottage

Garden Cottage is a house dating from the mid-16th century, with alterations made in the 17th century. It features a two-cell lobby-entrance plan and stands two storeys tall. The structure is timber-framed and plastered, topped with a thatched roof that has external and axial chimneys made of red brick. The cottage has 19th-century small-pane casements and boarded entrance doors. It is a small house with notably substantial framing that is fully exposed. The two-bay hall on the right includes a wide blocked lintelled fireplace, arch-braced studwork, and blocked square-mullioned windows. The 17th-century alterations consist of an external chimney for the service room, a newel staircase in the hall, and a new clasped-purlin roof, replacing the previous half-hipped roof at both ends. This building is an early example of a two-cell lobby-entrance house, where the second cell is a small unheated service room.