Thatched House

This is a thatched house, originally a pair of cottages, dating back to the 17th century, with later additions from the 18th or early 19th century and the early-to-mid 19th century. The house has a timber frame, with red and grey brick infilling in a stretcher bond pattern, the herringbone top course being distinctive. A right-side addition is of painted brick, featuring two first-floor studs, while the end addition has painted brick on the ground floor and combed rendering on the first floor. The roof is thatched.

The main range consists of four bays built at a right angle to the road, facing north. A single-bay addition, likely from the 18th or early 19th century, adjoins the main range to the right. An early-to-mid 19th century addition projects slightly forward at the right end. The main range is one-and-a-half storeys high, while the other additions are two storeys high, with the rightmost addition also having an attic. A stone plinth runs along the base of the main range. The roof of the main range is half-hipped to the east, blending into the roof of the right addition. The final addition has a gabled roof with slightly higher eaves and ridge. Multiple red brick stacks are present: one in the right end of the second bay from the left on the main range and a brick ridge stack on the centre of the end addition.

The fenestration is irregular, with four first-floor windows in the main range, including a two-light casement in the apex of the porch, one in the right addition, one to the left of the end addition, and a pointed 'lancet' window at the right end. Ground-floor windows include a two-light casement to the left, a three-light casement to the right of the porch, a two-light casement to the right addition, and two two-light casements to the end addition. A pointed 'lancet' window is found on the short left return of the end addition.

An early 19th century gabled timber-framed porch, under the main range stack, has a thatched roof, a boarded door with a triangular head, flanked by leaded, trefoil-headed painted brick windows. A half-glazed door with a flat hood is situated at the left end of the end addition. A short gabled 19th-century addition extends from the rear of the main range stack, with a further stack on its right side. A thatched hooded bell sits atop the apex of the right gable, with a loading door beneath.

The interior features exposed timber framing, including gunstock-jowled posts and arch-braced tie-beams, with the exception of the truss between the left and left-central bays. The main range has a clasped-purlin roof. The right gable end of the main range showcases long, curved tension braces passing across the midrail (visible internally). A fireplace with chamfered stone jambs and a high bressumer is situated to the right of the stack, while a later brick fireplace with a bressumer is found to the left. A fireplace in the rear addition is surrounded by small, decorative terracotta bricks dated 1562.