The Thatch Cottage

The Thatch Cottage is a cottage dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century, which was refenestrated in the early 20th century. It is timber-framed with visible framing on the east or front elevation, featuring rendered infill, while the other elevations are rendered with visible corner posts. The cottage has a hipped thatched roof with a painted brick chimney stack at the north end. It stands two storeys tall with an irregular arrangement of 20th-century casement windows that have leaded lights. The plan is that of a two-bay end chimneystack house with three outshuts, at least one of which is not original.

The front or east elevation consists of two storeys with a visible timber frame made up of large panels, including a midrail and a curved brace supporting the northern outshut. There is a large bay to the north and a smaller bay to the south, with two casements featuring leaded lights on the first floor and five on the ground floor. An off-centre 20th-century gabled wooden porch is present. The other elevations each have an eyebrow dormer window in catslide roofs, along with four small casement windows and a central doorcase on the west elevation.

Inside, there is an open fireplace with a wooden bressumer. Both the ground and first floor rooms have centrally placed spine beams and floor joists, with the joists forming the first floor ceiling possibly having been relocated. Where visible, the three principal rafters along the western wall have splay cut jowls and show evidence of mortices for footbraces. The north wall appears weathered and seems to have originally been an external wall, now incorporated within the northern lean-to. Both the north and south two-storey walls have stave holes, indicating they were originally lath and daubed. The roof features paired rafters that are pegged and tenoned at the ridge, with the southern hip retaining its pegged jack collar.