Thatchers

Thatchers is a house, originally two cottages, dating to the early 16th century or possibly earlier. The house is timber framed with rendered infilling and a thatched roof. It comprises an open hall of two timber-framed bays, with storeyed end bays. It stands on a stone plinth and has broadly-spaced studding of thin timber, with arch braces. A higher midrail is visible in the left-hand hall bay. The roof is hipped, with a multiple brick stack to the left hall bay and a projecting brick gable end stack on a stone plinth. The windows are irregular and largely 20th-century wooden oriel windows. There are French doors to the left end of the right end bay, and a blocked door under the stack. Inside, the timber framing is exposed. There are three fireplaces – two on the ground floor and one on the first – featuring tooled, chamfered stone jambs. The roof is a collared common rafter roof with lath and daub end-of-hall partitions.