Thatched Cottage

Thatched Cottage is a house dating from the early to mid 16th century, which was remodelled and extended in the 17th and 18th centuries. It features Flemish and English bond red brick, some of which is flared, largely replacing the original timber-framing. The cottage has a thatched roof with a half-hipped end and eyebrow eaves, along with brick axial and end stacks.

The building has a long four-room-plan layout. The two southern bays were originally open to the roof and contain three smoke-blackened trusses, heated by an open hearth fire. The two northern bays were likely added in the 17th and 18th centuries, with the northernmost bay built when the entire range was rebuilt in brick during the 18th century. There is a late 19th or 20th-century outshut at the rear. An adjoining house, Summer Place, forms a cross-wing at the right end.

The exterior is one storey with an attic and has an asymmetrical four-window range. It features 20th-century three-light casements on the ground floor and two-light attic casements under the eyebrow eaves. There is a plank door to the right of centre with a 20th-century wooden canopy. At the rear, there is a painted brick single-storey outshut with an eyebrow dormer above. The north end has a 20th-century balcony leading to a French casement on the first floor.

Inside, the right room has a large chamfered axial beam without stops and exposed unchamfered joists, along with a brick fireplace featuring a cambered chamfered lintel with run-out stops. The smaller centre right room also has a large chamfered axial beam without stops and unchamfered joists. The centre left room contains a chamfered axial beam with hollow step stops and exposed unchamfered joists, as well as a brick fireplace with an unchamfered lintel and an oven. The left room features a chamfered axial beam with run-out stops and exposed unchamfered joists. The interior includes jowled posts, curved braces to the tie-beam, and queen-posts and collars. The three trusses in the two southern bays are smoke-blackened, while the northernmost truss is clean on its north side.