Adelaide Cottage

Adelaide Cottage is a complex building comprising a 14th-century house with 16th and 17th-century additions and alterations, alongside a mid-19th-century house row. The house and wing are timber-framed and clad in weatherboarding. One addition is built with ragstone to the ground floor, with weatherboarding above. The house row is constructed of chequered red and grey brick to the ground floor, weatherboarded above, and has a slate roof.

The original house consists of two timber-framed bays, built at right angles to the road. The bay to the left was formerly part of an open hall, while the bay to the right has a storeyed design with a single aisle to the front. A later timber-framed rear wing extends to the left, with a further projection towards the road from its gable end. The house row is set at right angles to the right of the wing’s gable end, facing the lane.

The house has one-and-a-half storeys, the wing has two storeys, the addition two storeys and a garret, and the house row has two storeys. The house has a steeply pitched gabled roof. The addition has a half-hipped roof, with the right end jettied at eaves level. The house row features gables. A gable end stack with a stone base is located to the left of the house, with a projecting brick stack to the gable end of the addition. The house row has a gable end stack and two ridge stacks. The house has a hipped dormer and two small ground-floor casements. A four-light diamond mullion window is present on the rear elevation. The wing features a horizontally-sliding first-floor sash with a three-light casement beneath. The addition has one two-light casement, and the house row has irregular fenestration of four casements. A boarded door is at the left end of the house, beneath the stack for No. 6. A boarded door with a flat bracketed hood is at the left end of the addition, for No. 5. Boarded and panelled doors serve Nos. 1-4 of the house row.

The interior of No. 6 retains exposed timber framing including aisle ties to both bays, arcade braces to the left bay, a tie-beam trenched for passing braces, a re-used post with a lap-joint matrix, a stud-and-daub end-of-hall partition, sooted collared common rafters, a 16th or 17th century staircase with triangular wooden treads, and a stone fireplace. The interiors of Nos. 1-5 were not inspected.