Five Bells Cottage

House, dating from approximately 1500 to 1530. It is a two-story building with a three-cell cross-entry plan, plus an additional integral service cell. The external timber frame is plastered, with decorative beaded panels from the 19th century, featuring herringbone pargeting. The roof is tiled, with a hipped and gabletted section on the right and a half-hipped and gabletted section on the left. A red brick chimney, built in the early 17th century, has a distinctive sawtooth shaft. The first floor has small-paned casement windows. The ground floor has early to mid-20th century three-light oak casements with leaded glazing. A 20th-century four-panelled entrance door provides access. This is a well-constructed house of a conventional layout, distinguished by the addition of twin service rooms beyond the parlour on the right, in addition to the usual rooms. Inside, there are heavy, broadly-chamfered binding beams; the central beam over the hall features chamfered arch braces and traces of shafts on the posts. Unchamfered joists are also present. Evidence of tension-braced close studding and diamond mullioned windows can be seen. The roof has a crownpost structure, with a chamfered square post at the open truss, thin two-way braces extending to the collar purlin, and long rising braces from the tie beam. There are four-centred arched doorways, which have been moved from their original locations, along with evidence of others. The late 16th century chimney features large lintelled back-to-back fireplaces, including one above. One fireplace has limestone jambs, likely taken from the Abbey of St Edmundsbury. The lintels are very deep, and seem to originate from even larger fireplaces on the same site. Historical records indicate that a house on this site, referred to as "Reris," was bequeathed to Margaret Fuller in the will of John Bacon, the elder, dated 1513.