Wierton Cottage

A house dating from the 14th or 15th century, with alterations in the 17th and 19th centuries, and a 19th-century facade. The house is timber framed and weatherboarded, with a plain tile roof. Originally an open hall of probably three timber-framed bays, it has a storeyed bay at each end. The house has two storeys, set on a stone plinth. There is an underbuilt jetty to the gable end on the right, and a hipped roof with gablets. A multiple brick stack is located on the front slope of the roof, slightly to the right of the centre (in the central timber-framed bay); a truncated projecting brick stack is at the rear of the right end bay. The windows are arranged irregularly, with no windows towards the left end, three three-light casements and one two-light casement under the stack. A panelled door with two top lights is behind a half-glazed timber-framed porch, set under the stack, and within a reeded architrave. A narrow parallel rear range, dating from the 19th century, is constructed of stone and brick, with a slate roof and three stacks.

The interior includes a moulded end-of-hall beam, a steeply-cambered tie-beam to a right-central hall truss, a long cut jowl to the principal post of the left-central hall truss, and a sans-purlin collared common-rafter roof. There are 17th-century axial beams to the first floor of the left end bay and left hall bay. A 17th-century moulded stone fireplace with a four-centred arched bressumer, featuring leaf-spears to the spandrels, is located to the right side of the stack, while a plain-chamfered stone fireplace and bressumer are on the left.