The Cottage

The Cottage is a house dating from the 16th century. It features a timber frame with exposed close-studding and plaster infill on the east front, while the south front, which serves as the main entrance, is clad in red and blue brick. The roof is plain tiled and hipped to the south, sharing a clustered brick chimneystack with the adjoining property to the west. The building has two storeys and displays irregularly-spaced casement windows. The east front includes a continuous jetty supported by brackets, featuring three arched tension braces and two irregularly-spaced wooden casements on each floor. The south front has a tripartite wooden casement on each floor, with the ground floor window having a segmental head and cornice, alongside a boarded door to the right. This house is a good example of 16th-century timber framing and is part of a group of significant buildings.