Mulberry Cottage

Mulberry Cottage is a grade II* listed hall-house dating from around 1450, which was restored in 1932. The building features timber framing with plaster infilling, including some close-studding in the first-floor central recess and curved braces over the jettied overhangs. It is a classical Wealden hall-house with first-floor jetties and a central recess supported by curved side braces and a single brace rising from an off-centre wall post. The roof is plain tiled, hipped with gablets, and has an off-centre hipped dormer to the right, along with brick stacks positioned off-centre to the left and at the right end.

The cottage has two storeys with irregular fenestration, featuring seven windows on the first floor (five of which are continuously under the eaves in the recess) and seven windows on the ground floor (four of which are continuously under the jetty to the right). The front frame has lattice casements, and there are entrances at the rear, both of which have 16th-century boarded and ribbed doors set in moulded wooden Tudor arch surrounds.

Inside, there is evidence of substantial timber framing, including a low arched moulded bressummer over the drawing fireplace, a framed and plaster-infilling smoke bay, and a crown-post collar-purlin roof with a moulded octagonal crown-post.