The Thatched Cottage

The Thatched Cottage is a 17th-century house located in St. Helen Without Dry Sandford. It features a timber-framed structure built on a limestone plinth, consisting of two panels deep with arch braces. The cottage has a gabled thatch roof and stone end stacks. It follows a two-unit plan and has two storeys and an attic, with a two-window range. The central entrance has a 20th-century door and porch, and the windows are mostly from the 20th century, except for a 17th-century ovolo-moulded wood-mullioned and transomed four-light window to the right of the door. At the rear, there is a similar three-light mullioned window with leaded lights and a four-light wood-mullioned window. Inside, the cottage features stop-chamfered beams and a central timber-frame partition, along with a chamfered bressumer over the open fireplaces in the end walls.