Kismet Kismet Cottage

Kismet and Kismet Cottage are two houses that were built as one in the 16th century. They are two storeys high and have a three-cell plan. The buildings are timber-framed and plastered, with a glazed pantiled roof that was formerly thatched. There is a 17th-century axial chimney made of pink and buff brick with a sawtooth shaft, and another chimney of early 19th-century red brick at the right end. Kismet features a 20th-century boarded entrance door with an open porch supported by posts. Inside, the unmoulded 16th-century framing is exposed, showcasing close-studding and a blocked diamond-mullioned window. There is a wide lintelled open fireplace in the hall. The central section, which contains the hall and service rooms, is the earliest part of the building. To the left is a parlour block, which may have been added later in the 16th century or after around 1600, and is now a separate dwelling known as Kismet Cottage (the interior has not been examined). Originally, the earlier range was one storey with attics; the walls were raised and the roof made uniform when a further cell was added to the right around 1800.