The Thatched Cottage

The Thatched Cottage is a cottage dating from the early 17th century, which incorporates parts of an earlier building and has undergone later additions and alterations. It is constructed from roughly coursed limestone rubble and features a straw thatch roof. The earliest section of the cottage is located on the left and consists of a single-cell cottage. This section was extended to the right in the late 17th century and has been further extended twice since, including a late 20th-century addition.

The cottage is one storey high with an attic. The original part has an infilled doorway on the left with a small leaded casement window inserted, a leaded casement window with a wood lintel in the centre, and an infilled doorway on the right. There is a former integral end stack that has been converted to a ridge stack at the junction with the late 17th-century addition on the right. This addition features a raking eaves dormer with a leaded casement window directly above a 20th-century stable door, along with a red brick ridge stack at the junction with the next extension to the right. This extension has an infilled doorway with a small casement window inserted on the far left. The 20th-century extension to the right is designed in a matching style but is not of special architectural interest.

At the rear, there are leaded casement windows and an infilled doorway with a wood lintel on the right. Inside, the left ground-floor room has a chamfered spine beam with stepped ogee stops cut into an earlier cross beam that supports an upper cruck truss. There is an inglenook fireplace with a chamfered wood lintel and a bread oven to the left. The room to the right, which dates from the late 17th century, features a chamfered spine beam with run-out stops and plain joists. It also has a large inglenook fireplace on the right stack, with a chamfered wood lintel, a bread oven to the left, and a salt cupboard to the right. The joists are exposed in this room as well. A semi-winder staircase is present in the late 17th-century addition. The attic reveals an upper cruck truss with a slot for a collar, and the roof has chamfered single-purlins with original thatching spars. Each part of the roof has a different pitch but maintains the same type.