The Old Thatched Cottage

The Old Thatched Cottage is a cottage dating from the 16th century or early 17th century, with later additions and alterations from the 17th, 18th, or 19th centuries, and further changes in the 20th century. It is timber-framed with painted infill, painted brick additions, and a weatherboarded side outshut. The cottage features thatched roofs and a brick chimney.

The building is one storey high and was originally a single cell with a half-bay smoke-bay at the north-east end. A chimney was inserted in the smoke-bay, and a bay was added to the south-west end. An outshut was later built around the chimney, and a wing was added at the rear, with an additional south-western extension from the 20th century. The north-west (garden) elevation has a plinth, and the exposed timber-framing includes wall-posts, a small-scantling midrail, intermediate posts, and a wall-plate. The windows consist of three lights to the left of centre, two two-light windows at the centre, one small light on the right, and two lights in the extension. The left end has a ridge stack and a cat-slide roof over the outshut, which features some old weatherboard and a strap-hinged door made of two wide planks. Inside the outshut, there is the back of the bread-oven and a house wall made of flint and brick.

At the rear, the right-hand bay has an inserted door and a small two-light window. The projecting wing on the east side has a door on the left and two small two-light windows, with the right window featuring shutter stanchions and two-pane lights, along with exposed rafter feet. There are three windows in the section on the left.

Inside, the cottage retains exposed timbers and beams, a large brick fireplace with a timber bressumer and a bread-oven. The blackened roof timbers over the earliest left-hand section include crude rafters with scribed carpenters' marks, a queen-post roof truss, and clasped purlins. Unsooted wattle and daub can be seen in the apex of the truss between the earliest section and the addition.