Newhall Cottage

Newhall Cottage is a house, formerly a farmhouse, dating from around 1600. It has two storeys and retains two surviving cells of what was originally a three-cell lobby-entrance house. The structure is timber-framed and rendered, topped with a plaintiled roof that features axial and gable chimneys made of red brick. The axial chimney is from the early 17th century and has twin flattened hexagon flues on a square base. The windows are small-pane casements from the 19th century, and there is a 20th-century glazed panelled entrance door. Inside, there is a parlour to the left and a hall to the right, both with back-to-back open fireplaces. There is evidence of unglazed diamond-mullioned windows in most rooms. A plaque above the entrance displays "T.G. 1769," which is a copy from around 1970 of the original that was surrounded by decorative high relief. Thomas Gage of Rookwood Hall was the landlord in 1769. A fire in 1930 destroyed the right-hand service cell of the house. There is a photograph from around 1960 of the front elevation in the National Monuments Record library.