Thatched Cottage

House. Built around the early 15th century, it was remodelled around the 17th and 18th centuries, with an extension added in the 19th century. The house has a timber frame with brick nogging; the front and west end walls were rebuilt around the 18th century using red brick. It has a thatched roof with hipped and half-hipped ends, and brick axial and gable-end stacks with set-offs.

The original layout consisted of a 3-bay house with a 2-bay open hall on the east side. A floor was inserted into the open hall around the 17th century, and a stack was built at the right end of the hall, creating a lobby entrance. The front (south) and left (west) end walls were rebuilt in brick around the 18th century, and a small 1-bay addition was built at the right end in the 19th century.

The south front has a single storey and attic, along with an asymmetrical 3-window frontage. It features two 3-light casement windows with glazing bars and segmental brick arches on the ground floor to the left, and a smaller 2-light casement window above, with eyebrow eaves. There is a doorway to the right of centre, and the right side is weatherboarded. The rear (north) elevation shows exposed timber framing and various casement windows with glazing bars. There's a glazed garden door on the right and a plank door on the left.

Inside, the timber frame is exposed. The attic chambers are ceiled, but the tie-beam, curved wind-braces, and arch-braced collar truss are visible. The frame has 3 bays, with collar and tie-beam end trusses, and a similar open truss originally between the hall and the west bay. The hall has an arch-braced collar truss and clasped-purlins, a diagonal ridgepiece set on diagonally trenched yokes and clasped at the apex of the principals, common-rafter couples, and thatching battens, all heavily smoke-blackened from a former open-hearth fire. The underside of the thatch appears to be clean.

The Thatched Cottage is a good example of a small medieval 3-bay timber-framed house with a 2-bay open hall.