Church Green Cottage

This is a late 16th or early 17th century house, possibly originally used for both residential and commercial purposes, and now divided into two houses. The right-hand bay was added or rebuilt at a slightly later date, and the property has undergone 19th century alterations. The front is painted brick with a chequered pattern of red and grey brick to the left gable end; the first floor is weatherboarded. The roof is tiled, with a half-hipped design. A slender projecting stack is located on the left gable end, and a brick ridge stack sits towards the left end of the central bay. A 19th-century brick lean-to with a plain tiled roof sits under and to the left of the ridge stack. The windows are timber-framed, with an irregular arrangement including a hipped dormer window to the left of the stack and three casement windows (two two-light and one single-light) to the right. A ribbed door is set into the left gable end of number 2, and a half-glazed door is in the right gable end of the lean-to to number 1. Inside, the original timber framing is exposed, including tension braces, gunstock jowls and long shaped jowls. A blocked four-light diamond mullion window is visible under the stack, and there is evidence of another mullion window at the rear. An axial ground-floor beam is carried on jowled posts. A plain brick fireplace with a wooden bressumer is in one room, and the roof has clasped purlins with non-reducing principal rafters. The two bays on the left have 19th-century re-joisting and studding.