Place House Cottages

Place House Cottages is a house that dates back to 1445, with an addition made around 1550, and it underwent alterations in the early 19th century. The building is timber-framed, featuring herring-bone brick and plastered infilling, with the southern end rendered and the front largely rebuilt in brick. It has a plain-tile roof with half-hipped and gabled ends, and a rendered brick stack at the north end with set-offs.

The structure has a two-storey, three-window west front. On the ground floor, there are two modern plate-glass windows on the left and a modern plank door to the right of the center. The first floor features three 19th-century two-light casement windows with glazing bars. The rear of the house shows exposed timber framing, with close-studding on the ground floor and some herring-bone brick nogging on the right. There is large framing above with curved tension-braces and a small three-light mullion window on the first floor to the left, along with a single-storey brick outshut.

Inside, much of the timber frame is exposed. The northern bays have a ceiling with a chamfered cross-beam and broad chamfered joists without stops, along with a large brick fireplace that has a chamfered timber lintel carved with the initials EL and RH, and a brick oven. The rear wall of the northern bays displays exposed close-studding and a wall-post with a chamfered shaft and large broach stops. The roof consists of four bays with cambered tie-beams on jowled posts; the two northern bays have a collar and tie-beam truss with a central post and curved struts, clasped purlins, and intact curved wind-braces. The southern section opens to two bays of roof with curved braces to the tie-beam and queen-posts to the collar, also featuring clasped purlins, curved wind-braces, and intact common-rafter couples. There is a chamfered door-frame in the partition between the center and southern bay.