Oak Cottage

Oak Cottage is a cottage dating from the mid to late 17th century, which was refurbished in the late 19th century and underwent some modernisation around 1986. The building features a timber frame, with the ground floor built in Flemish bond red brick and clad with peg-tile above. It has a brick stack and chimney shaft, and a peg-tile roof.

The cottage has a three-room lobby entrance plan and is set back from the Green, facing southeast. At the left end is a small unheated service room, likely originally a buttery or dairy. Next to it is the parlour, and at the right end is the former kitchen. An axial stack serves back-to-back fireplaces between the hall and parlour, with a lobby entrance in front. A straight flight of stairs rises from the parlour along the rear wall of the service room. Much of the roof was rearranged in the late 19th century, and the partition between the parlour and service room was removed in the 20th century.

The exterior features an irregular three-window front with circa 1988 uPVC casements that have glazing bars, matching the size of the original windows. The front doorway, located to the right of centre, has a late 19th or early 20th century part-glazed plank door behind a contemporary gabled porch. The tall roof is half-hipped at both ends and includes a single front dormer, with the roof pitch raised to accommodate it.

Inside, the framed structure is primarily from the 17th century. Where exposed on the first floor, each bay has slender straight tension braces. The main rooms have chamfered axial beams with scroll stops in the kitchen and bar-scroll stops in the parlour. Both main fireplaces are made of brick with plain oak lintels; the kitchen fireplace is larger and includes a cupboard and a blocked oven doorway. The rail between the parlour and service room features initials and an inverted heart motif carved above the stair. The roof structure is mostly concealed behind 19th and 20th-century plaster but appears to have been remodelled in the 19th century and currently lacks collars.