Wrangling Cottage

Wrangling Cottage is a small house dating from around 1700, with additions made in the mid-20th century. It is built using a timber frame, covered with weatherboarding, and has a peg-tile roof. A substantial brick stack rises from the left end.

The house is north-facing and has two bays. The original layout comprised two main rooms: a heated room to the east and an unheated service end, containing the staircase, which has since been divided into two rooms. The front entrance is in the unheated end. An outshut was added to the east end, likely in the 18th century. A triangular 20th-century addition adjoins the front left corner, along with a more recent porch.

The front elevation has a gabled roof to the left and a half-hipped roof to the right. The left-hand stack is large, with a tall shaft and a corbelled brick cornice. The front features an asymmetrical arrangement of two windows, likely dating from the 19th century, and are two-light casements with glazing bars. The rear elevation retains one 18th-century mullioned window on the ground and first floors, with sunk bead mouldings to the mullions and original furniture.

Inside the heated room, there is a crossbeam with run-out stops, visible exposed joists, and a fireplace lintel with scroll stops. The fireplace includes a keeping place and evidence of a former bread oven. Much of the original timber framing is still visible, with shaped jowls on the wallposts.

The roof is constructed with clasped purlins, reinforced by a king post and strut arrangement supporting the first-floor axial ceiling beam above the heated room. Reused, sooted rafters are also present. The collar of the unheated end is steeply cambered.