Beech Cottage And Ivy Cottage

Beech Cottage and Ivy Cottage are two houses dating from the 15th century, originally designed as an open hall but divided into two in the early 19th century. The buildings are one-and-a-half storeys tall, featuring timber framing with plaster panels that have a comb pattern, and they are topped with thatched roofs. There is an internal chimney stack with a plain red brick shaft.

The ground floor has three small-paned sash windows set in flush frames, while the upper floor includes four gabled dormers with plain tiled roofs and three-light single bar casements. There are two half-glazed doors with moulded surrounds: one leads to a small gabled porch at Beech Cottage, and the other is part of an early 19th-century two-storey extension with a shallow-pitched pantiled roof at the southern end.

Inside, the house retains the remains of a two-bay open hall, featuring a smoke-blackened crown-post roof with a short crown-post that is braced in four directions at the head. The entrance door to Ivy Cottage, located on the north side, opens into the original cross-entry, which has an inserted chimney stack backing against it. The service end has two doorways with plain four-centred arched heads, and the two service rooms were combined into one and extended in the 17th century, with an additional chimney stack added to the north gable wall.