Tudor Cottage, Bix Cottage And Tumber House

Originally a 14th-century hall house, the building has evolved into three separate properties: Tudor Cottage, Bix Cottage, and Tumber House. Initially comprising a service bay to the west, a two-bay central open hall, and a parlour bay to the east, a parlour wing was added around 1760, and the roof was rebuilt around the same time.

The exterior is timber-framed, with plaster infilling in the west wall, though Bix Cottage and Tudor Cottage were refronted with red brick in the 18th century. The roof is tiled, with a gablet at one end. Fenestration includes casement and horizontally-sliding sash windows. The building is two stories high and has three windows. A modern brick addition is located to the northwest. Tumber Cottage largely comprises the 18th-century parlour wing and stands end-on to the street, with a higher elevation. It is rendered with a band separating the floors, has a tiled roof with a brick chimney stack, and features 20th-century casement windows, along with a doorcase with a tiled hood.

The interior retains elements of the original hall, which was divided by an arch-braced truss. The central section of the tiebeam includes an integral nib carrying the line of the braces across the underside. Arch braces spring from the level of the present first floor. Surviving mediaeval features include principal posts, sections of arch braces to the hall truss, three tiebeams, parts of the rear wallplate, and a central stud in the parlour/hall cross partition. While primarily an 18th-century roof, a pair of mid-16th-century unsooted rafters survive from a paired rafter and collar roof, and similar rafters have been reused.