Give Ale Cottage

Give Ale Cottage is a Grade II listed building located on the north side of King Street in Fordwich. Part of the house features a minor-brace roof without purlins dating back to around 1300, while the remainder was rebuilt in the late 17th century with a simple Queen post roof. This may be the house for which Thomas Wooton was presented in the Archdeacon's Court in 1670 due to concerns about its condition affecting the churchyard house.

The cottage is timber-framed with painted brick infilling, which has been partly refaced in brick and is now painted. It has a tiled roof and consists of one storey with attics. On the right side, there is a half-hipped gable with one sliding sash window above another, and half-timbering above the ground floor. On the left, a dormer at eaves level features a two-light window above two segmental arched windows, one with three lights and the other with two. The building has a rendered plinth, and the east front displays three windows, two gabled projections with flint floors that are plastered at the ends, and a pentice in between. The entrance is a plain door.