Thorn Cottage

Thorn Cottage is a house dating from the mid-16th century, with alterations from the late 16th or early 17th century. It features a timber frame, with the ground floor finished in painted brick. The first floor to the left of the stack is covered in banded plain and fishscale tiles, while the area under and to the right of the stack has exposed framing and plaster infilling. The rear is clad in tarred weatherboarding, and the roof is covered in plain tiles.

The building consists of four timber-framed bays, with a narrow fifth bay on the left end, and it stands two storeys high. The studding is broadly spaced, with arch braces in the right end bay. The left end bay appears to be roofed as a lean-to against the higher gable of the rest of the house. The roof is gabled to the right, featuring an exposed plain crown post with two foot-braces and jettied wall-plates that support an additional rafter couple with a collar-purlin extending under the collar. There is a brick ridge stack located at the right end of the second bay from the right.

The fenestration is irregular, consisting of three small wooden casements: a three-light window towards the left, a two-light window towards the centre, and another two-light window to the right. There is a shallow eight-light chamfered mullioned and transomed oriel window on the right gable end of each floor, with the first-floor window resting on shaped brackets and the ground-floor window on a painted brick plinth. Both windows have two-light frieze-windows with diamond subsidiary mullions. A ribbed door is located under a small open porch at the left gable end.

At the rear, there is a short lean-to on the left, constructed with brick in rat-trap bond, and another lean-to towards the right end. The interior has only been partly inspected but features exposed framing, chamfered axial beams, and unchamfered joists in the ground-floor rooms. There is evidence of a full-height partition to the truss to the left of the stack, and the unsooted roof contains plain crown posts with foot braces and lapped collars. A broad 17th-century brick stack is also present.