Nos. 1 to 5 Church Cottages

A terrace of five houses, built in two stages and originally likely as a single dwelling. The core of the property is a late 15th-century open hall house, now comprising Nos. 1 and 2, with a later 16th-century extension to the left. The houses are two storeys high. They are timber-framed and plastered, with some areas featuring late 18th or early 19th century cable-pattern pargetting in panels. The roof is tiled, with a hipped end. Four axial chimneys of red brick are present, one dating to around 1600 and later recapped. Most windows are 19th-century small-pane casements, with boarded entrance doors. No. 1 has a pair of casements and a boarded and battened door, both dating to the mid-20th century.

A two-bay open hall is largely contained within No. 1. The central open truss is incomplete, but retains a tie-beam with a deep arch-brace springing from a chamfered pilaster. The roof is smoke-blackened, with a complete crown-post roof; the central cross-quadrate crownpost features lateral braces dovetailed into the collar. Good exposed framing is visible, including close-studding, blocked original windows with square mullions, and lodged heavy floor joists. An upper floor was inserted into the hall in the late 16th century, featuring plain joists, and a binding joist with leaf-carved chamfer stops. The 16th-century extension is unusually long and may have been added as a subsidiary dwelling; it features plain, substantial framing with arch-braced studwork and a plain crownpost roof.