The Pit

The Pit is a cottage dating from the late 18th century or early 19th century. It features rendered chalk with brick nogging visible in the exposed roof trusses at the gable ends. The cottage has a red brick lateral stack at the rear and a brick gable-end stack. The roof is thatched with long straw and has half-hipped gable ends along with eyebrow dormers.

The building has a two-bay plan with a central entrance at the front leading into the larger room on the right, which is heated by the lateral stack at the back. The smaller room on the left was likely originally unheated and is now divided into a smaller front room and a kitchen at the back, where a stack has been added to the left end wall and a doorway is located at the rear. A straight staircase against the rear wall rises from the kitchen.

The exterior is one storey with an attic and features a symmetrical two-window front. The windows are small two-light casements with glazing bars, and there are attic windows in the roof with eyebrow heads. The central doorway has a plank door and is sheltered by a gabled open porch with a tiled canopy supported by thin wooden posts. At the rear, there is a plank door on the right, a lateral stack on the left with tiled set-offs, a tiled oven projection, and a rendered fuel store with a tiled lean-to roof. There is also a small brick stack on the gable end.

Inside, much of the original carpentry and joinery remains, including plank doors, exposed ceiling beams and joists, a brick fireplace with an oven and timber lintel, the straight staircase, and roof trusses with long curved braces rising to the principals and short ties in the spandrels.