Keepers Cottage

Keeper's Cottage is a late 15th century hall house, with alterations from the late 16th century. It has one-and-a-half storeys and a three-cell layout across four bays. The building is timber-framed and rendered, featuring a roughcast surface and a clay pantile roof. There is an internal chimney stack with saw-tooth shafts and corbelled heads on a square base. The cottage has 20th century casement windows and two gabled dormers that have plain barge-boards and spike finials. The entrance door is located within a 20th century porch that has a single-pitched roof. Inside, most timbers are exposed, and the middle bay to the left of the chimney stack shows signs of smoke-blackening on the roof timbers. The chimney stack is a later addition, intruding into one bay of the room to the right of the stack. The inserted ceiling is plain and heavy, with joists set flat, and on the upper floor, two tie-beams have been cut.