Oak Cottage

Oak Cottage is a house dating to the late 16th century, with significant alterations in the 19th century and lean-to additions added in the 20th century, the south addition dating to the 1930s and the north addition from 1978. A flat-roofed extension was added to the southeast in the 20th century. The house is timberframed with 20th-century plastered pargetted infill on the first floor and painted brick infill on the ground floor. It has an old tiled roof, a tiled gable end to the north, and an external brick chimneystack at the south end. The north and south ends feature 20th-century brick and rendered lean-to additions with tiled roofs. The house is two storeys high and has irregular fenestration with mainly 19th-century casement windows. It is a two-bay end chimneystack house. The exterior has exposed timberframing with a midrail and vertical posts. The front or east elevation has an original oak door to the right side of the south bay, featuring pintle hinges and a firemark above the door.

Inside, the sitting room has a large open fireplace with a wooden bressumer. It contains a three-inch chamfered spine beam with triangular stops, and one-inch chamfered floor joists, along with a plank door with pintle hinges. The ceiling beams in the north room are unchamfered. Visible sockets indicate the former location of diamond-mullioned windows in the north end wall. The principal bedroom above the sitting room features a late 16th-century brick fireplace with a 19th-century tiled surround. The roof is a queenpost construction, retaining original rafters and diagonal tension braces, with visible wall framing and jowled posts. There are carpenters' marks present. Original oak floorboards remain. An additional bedroom was panelled in the 1930s, but a corner post remains visible.