Weylands Cottages

Weylands Cottages, comprising three cottages, were originally built in the early 16th century as a single three-room house, with substantial remodelling around 1550. A single-cell unit-house, also dating from around 1550, was later attached, forming the third cottage. The cottages are two storeys high. They are timber-framed and plastered, with some 18th-century cable-pattern pargeting. The unit-house retains original brick-nogging between the studs, where the plaster has fallen away in places. The roofs are thatched, with axial and gable chimneys constructed from red brick. There are 19th-century small-pane casement windows and 19th-century boarded entrance doors. The gable facing the road, a feature of the 1550 remodelling, has an overhanging gable tiebeam, moulded and embattled, supported by short, pendant posts with rose-carved arch braces. Evidence suggests an archbraced collar is present in the gable above. The 1550 work is of high quality; a blocked doorway has an enriched four-centred arched head. The roofs incorporate 2-tier wind-braced butt-purlins. The unit-house features a hall with an end chimney and a ceiled chamber above. Both rooms have roll-moulded beams and joists, and retain a faint but largely complete scheme of original wall decoration. The rolls display red and white barber-shop pole stripes, a frieze of black crosses encircles the hall, and black running interlace is painted along the soffit of the main beams. The closely spaced studwork is picked out in red. The principal posts in the hall have moulded and embattled jowls supporting the upper floor. Blocked windows have square mullions. The survival of historic features demonstrates group value and indicates architectural significance.