Old Kent Cottage

Old Kent Cottage is a house that possibly dates back to the early 14th century. It features a timber frame with rendered infilling and painted brick infilling on the right end bay. The left gable end is tile-hung on the first floor, and the building has a thatched roof. It is oriented at right angles to the road and consists of a two-bay open hall with a storeyed bay at each end, standing at one and a half storeys on a painted stone plinth. The left gable end jetties out, and the frame is made of relatively thin timber with broadly spaced studding. The front elevation of the right end bay has been rebuilt with square panels. There is a broad low window cill across the left hall bay and a straight brace on the left side of the right hall bay. The roof is half-hipped on the left side and hipped on the right, with a modern brick stack located at the right end of the right hall bay. The fenestration is irregular, featuring one three-light leaded casement in the left hall bay and one two-light leaded casement on the first floor of the left gable end. There is a boarded door beneath a stock. The interior has not been inspected, but it is said that the hall has never been floored.