The Old Cottage

The Old Cottage is a 15th-century timber-framed building located on New Street. Its facade features a painted brick ground floor, while the first floor juts out and is now faced with painted roughcast. The building has a very steeply pitched, old tiled roof and stands two storeys tall. On the ground floor, there is a corner window facing Bell Street and three other irregular windows, including a small canted bay with glazing bars and an 18th-century shop window, which is no longer in use. The first floor has four windows with reproduction, three-light, leaded casements, likely in the original window spaces. The Old Cottage is part of a group of buildings that includes Nos 45, 45A, and 47, as well as Nos 53 to 81 (odd) and Nos 44 to 52 (even) on Bell Street. It also forms part of another group that includes Nos 2 to 76 (even) and Nos 1 to 33 (odd), along with the walls associated with Nos 32 to 40 (even).