Hawthorne Cottage

Hawthorne Cottage is likely an old inn, later used as a house and shop, and now a house. The core of the building dates to the mid-16th century, with an addition made in the late 16th or early 17th century, and alterations in the 18th century. It was restored in the 1980s. The construction is timber-framed. The ground floor and right gable end are of chequered red and grey brick; the first floor is rendered. The roof is covered in plain tiles. The cottage is set at a right angle to the road and comprises three bays of a storeyed 16th-century building, which appears to have been unpartitioned on the first floor. The left-hand bay is partitioned from the other two on the ground floor. A fourth bay was added to the right in the late 16th or early 17th century. The cottage has two storeys and a cellar. It features a coved rendered eaves cornice to the right gable end, and a hipped roof. There is a central rear stack and a slender rear stack towards the right end. The fenestration is irregular, with one central two-light leaded casement window. A rear lean-to is constructed of brickwork integrated within the gable end. A doorway has been blocked towards the centre of the front. A single-storey 19th-century addition, formerly a shop and now used for domestic purposes, is set at a right angle to the left end of the front elevation, and has a ribbed 20th-century door. Inside, there is exposed timber framing, and evidence of a crown-post roof to the three left-hand bays. Evidence remains of a first-floor window and a ground-floor bay window to the original right gable end. An ovolo-moulded cross-beam is found in the right-hand bay. A rear central stack was inserted, probably in the 17th century. The stone cellar, dating from the 16th century or earlier, has a blocked stone window to the original right gable end of the house.