The Old Cottage

The Old Cottage is a hall house dating from the 16th century, likely from the early to mid part of the century. A floor was inserted in the 17th century, and it was divided into two cottages in the early 19th century, with further alterations made in the mid and late 20th century. The building is timber-framed with wattle and daub infill and is plastered. It features external brick end stacks, with the right stack being plastered, and has a plain tile roof. The cottage is one storey with an attic, consisting of two bays, a rear outshut, and a side outshut on the left.

At the center, there is a gabled porch from the late 20th century flanked by two-light windows with leaded casements. Above, there are similar swept-roofed dormers. The side outshut has a similar window to the left of a half-glazed board door with a deep canopy. The rear of the cottage features a gabled porch on the right flanked by small windows, with the left side containing a two-light, four-pane wooden casement. On the right return, there are two small windows on the ground floor and one above, located to the right of the chimney.

Inside, the timber framing is preserved in the rear wall on both floors and in all walls above mid-rail height, including the sill plate, mid rail, wall plate, vertical studs, unjowelled wall posts, and slightly curved braces to the cambered tie-beams. The roof features collared queen-post trusses with clasped diagonally-set purlins, curved wind-braces, and smoke-blackened rafters running the full length of the roof, along with an inserted square-sectioned ridge-piece. There is a timber-framed partition wall between the bays, which was inserted later. In the left bay on the ground floor, there is a chamfered spine beam with cyma-moulded stops, and old floorboards can be found on the first floor.