Honey Cottage

Honey Cottage is a house dating from the late 17th century, with its eaves raised and re-roofed in the 20th century. It is timber-framed and roughcast rendered, featuring a 20th-century corrugated iron roof over earlier thatch. A brick ridge stack is located at the center left of the building. The house has a three-unit plan and is a single storey with an attic. It has a two-window range of 20th-century small-paned casements and a four-panel door set within an open-fronted porch.

Inside, the partly concealed intact frame consists of four bays with fairly heavy scantling, primary bracing, and face-halved scarf joints in the wallplates. Each ground floor room features an axial chamfered ceiling beam, with two rooms having partly exposed plain oak joists set flat. The central room has a heavy ceiling beam with nicked stop-chamfers at one end, which is likely re-used. There are back-to-back open fireplaces on the ground floor, which are partly infilled. In the center of the house, against the front wall, there is an unenclosed straight-flight stair made of oak, possibly original. The 17th-century roof remains intact beneath the 20th-century replacement, which is ceiled-in at collar level.