Crispin Cottage

Crispin Cottage is a late 17th-century house with subsequent alterations and extensions from the late 18th century, 19th century, and 20th century. It is a whitewashed and rendered timber-frame building with a plain-tile roof and a red brick ridge stack. Originally a two-unit lobby-entry plan, it was extended to the right in the 19th century to become a three-unit layout. The house is single-storey with an attic. The front has a three-window range of three-light casement windows, a two-light window to the right, a 20th-century porch, two two-light dormers in the roof, and a two-light casement window in the gable over a 20th-century garage. The rear has 20th-century single-storey extensions.

Inside, there is large panel framing and diagonal braces. Bridging beams have chamfers with ogee stops; one is of pine, as are the transverse beams either side a 17th-century brick stack. Softwood is also present in the framing. The back-to-back fireplaces have been relined with red Suffolk bricks in the late 18th century. A winder stair is located in the lobby entrance. The dining room has reused and halved moulded joists, probably dating from the 16th or early 17th century. The roof is mainly plastered, but a visible section shows 17th-century rafters and a likely 18th-century plank ridge. The original two-unit lobby-entry house remains substantially intact.