Bird-In-Hand-Cottage

Bird-in-Hand Cottage is a house that later became an alehouse and common lodging house, and is now a shop. It has elements from the 16th and 18th centuries. The building features a timber frame set on a cement plinth, with weatherboarding on the ground floor at the front and tile-hanging above. There is some exposed timber framing on the left side, also with tile-hanging above and in the gable. The roof is plain tiled, and there is a tall ribbed brick stack located to the right of the center, along with an end projecting brick stack on the left. The building has two storeys, with paired sash windows on the first floor and a shop front that includes a central half-glazed door flanked by paired octagonal shop fronts. The right-hand part of the building is obscured by a lower 19th-century block of Waterloo House, which is not listed. Inside, there is substantial evidence of timber framing, and there may be an inserted stack with a heavy wooden bressummer.