Craven Cottage

Craven Cottage is a house dating from the early 17th century, with an extension added in the mid to late 18th century. It is constructed of chalk ashlar on a sarsen base, with brick dressings, and features uncoursed chalk rubble on the sides and rear, along with chalk quoins on the right side that date back to the 17th century. The roof is thatched, and there are brick stacks. The building is L-shaped, two stories high, and has a three-window range.

The front has a planked door with a moulded architrave, accompanied by a 20th-century flat hood and a trellised porch. Above the door, there are brick segmental arches with chalk keys over three-light 20th-century casements. The building displays brick storey and eaves bands, with a gabled roof on the left side and a hipped roof on the right. It has symmetrical end stacks and a rear end stack.

Inside, the original 17th-century house consists of two units, with the mid to late 18th-century extension located behind the left section of the front. The rear room retains its original 17th-century fireplace, which features a chamfered bressummer and a deep chamfered beam with a half-pyramidal stop, morticed into a timber-framed partition wall. The interior also includes a complete set of chamfered beams and joists, and the rear first-floor room has another 17th-century fireplace with a chamfered bressummer, along with a collar-truss roof supported by butt purlins.