Spinney Cottage

Spinney Cottage is a house that was formerly a public house, dating from the 15th century with 16th century and later alterations. It has one and a half storeys and attics. Originally, it was a three-cell open hall-house, constructed with a timber frame that is now mostly encased in colour-washed red brick, with some areas of render. The roof is covered with cedar shingles and is half-hipped at the right-hand end, featuring an axial chimney made of red brick and a mono-pitched casement dormer. The building includes various 19th and 20th century windows and a 20th century boarded and battened entrance door. Inside, there is a two-bay formerly-open hall that has a cambered and chamfered arch-braced tie-beam and a coupled-rafter roof, which is soot-blackened. The dais wall displays large rising braces and shows evidence of a fixed bench. There is a cross-passage doorway with a four-centred arched head and a top rail from a screen or spere. The service end cell has been removed. A first floor was inserted into the hall, and a fireplace was built backing onto the cross-passage in the mid-16th century. Additionally, a one and a half storey extension was added to the left-hand end around 1980.