Wheat Cottage

House. Dating from the late 17th century and early 18th century, with alterations made in the early-to-mid 19th century and mid-to-late 20th century. The house is timber-framed with plastered wattle and daub infill, which was clad in the early-to-mid 19th century with banded red brick and knapped flint, featuring segmental brick-arched openings and a cement-rendered plinth. It has a plain tile roof with a brick stack. Originally, the building had a 2-bay central lobby-entry plan; an 18th-century bay was added to the left, and a 19th-century rear outshut was added to the rear. A 20th-century projecting half-hipped gabled bay was added on the right. The house is one storey with an attic, and has four bays. The early 19th-century 2-panel door, located between the left-hand bays, has a glazed upper panel with glazing bars, and is within a half-hipped tiled porch with log columns. Windows are either 2-light or 3-light metal casements with diagonal leading, or wood casements with small panes and narrower margin panes. Three attic windows are in hipped-roofed dormers. The roof is half-hipped at the left end and has a ridge stack between bays 2 and 3. The left return has a truncated external stack with offsets at the base, and a 3-light window to the right, with a 2-light window above in a half-timbered gable. Inside, the timber frame is visible, especially on the first floor, and includes clasped through purlins and straight wind braces in the left bay. In the second bay on the ground floor is a large brick fireplace with a chamfered timber bressummer and a bread oven, along with a chamfered cross-beam with stepped cyma stops. The left bay has a chamfered cross-beam and reset 18th-century panelling. The 20th-century bay on the right contains an early 19th-century panelled cupboard with an arched top, which was relocated from an earlier part of the house.