Cellarers Cottage

Cellarers Cottage is a 15th to 16th century timber-framed and plastered hall house, likely the Cellarer's Hall mentioned by Matthew Parker, the last Dean of the College of St John Baptist de Stoke. He noted in his records that he built a grammar school near the gate and enhanced the Old House called Cellarer's Hall for the use of the Dean, Prebendary, and Vicars. The cottage features a gabled cross wing at the north end, with part of the south end jettied on the first storey. The front of the building was altered in the 18th and 19th centuries. Most windows are casements with glazing bars, while some are double-hung sashes with glazing bars. The ground storey includes a small 19th century shop window with glazing bars and a small 20th century shop window. The roofs are tiled. Inside, the cottage has heavy and closely spaced exposed timber-framing, along with several original features such as a fine arched truss on shafts with moulded capitals, a 16th century castellated beam, two original windows (now blocked), one featuring moulded mullions and the other with diamond mullions, and some Tudor arched doorways. All the listed buildings on The Street, including Green Farmhouse, form a group.