Monks Cottage

Monks Cottage is a shop and house, now used as a house, dating from the 17th century or early 18th century, with a late 19th-century addition and 20th-century alterations. The ground floor is made of painted brick, while the first floor is rendered with applied studding. The building has a plain tile roof and stands two storeys high, featuring a plat band. A part of the post and wall-plate end is visible at the front left corner, terminating about halfway up the current first floor, possibly relating to a building that no longer exists to the left. The roof is half-hipped to the left and hipped to the right, with a gablet. The right hip returns with a lower ridge. There is a red and grey brick ridge stack towards the centre. The windows are arranged irregularly, with three paned windows; there is one two-light horizontally-sliding sash at each end and one six-paned single light towards the centre. A bow window is located at the left end of the ground floor, with ribbed garage doors to the right and a ribbed door with a flat hood on slender iron brackets under the stack. To the right, there is a two-storey painted brick rear addition and a painted flint rear lean-to.

Inside, the left ground-floor room features a chamfered axial beam and unchamfered joists of relatively small scantling. There is a brick fireplace, partly in English bond, with a bressumer formed from a late 16th-century or 17th-century ovolo-moulded ceiling beam that has comparatively elaborate chamfer-stops. The right ground-floor room also has a chamfered axial beam, along with a tie beam and wall-plate of relatively small scantling.