Numbers 1-4 Church Cottages

Numbers 1 to 4 Church Cottages are a terrace of cottages built for the Ickworth Estate, with an 18th-century core. Cottage number 1 served as the village school. The cottages are two storeys high, featuring timber-framed, rendered walls and a thatched roof. A pedimented gable supported by brackets at the eaves level includes a circular window with glazing bars. The axial red brick chimneys have a central stone arched niche between two square flues, resembling the arcaded belfry openings on the church tower across the road. The cottages have 3-light wrought iron casements with small oblong panes; some of the casements have semi-circular heads, while some first-floor windows are of Venetian form with traceried render panels and eyebrow dormers above. The entrance doors are boarded and feature gabled canopies supported by carved brackets, with fish-scale tiled roofs and ornate bargeboards. The cottages were restored around 1980.