Church Cottage

Church Cottage is a late 16th-century, two-bay timber-framed cottage with one storey and a framed smoke hood in the smaller bay. It features an early 17th-century two-bay parlour wing with a chimney that rises through the earlier smoke hood bay, and it is clad in brick from the 19th century. The original part of the house is constructed in English bond brickwork with a tiled roof and 19th-century casement windows. The early 17th-century parlour wing is made of early 19th-century brickwork in Flemish bond, also with a tiled roof and a tall brick chimneystack. The cottage has two storeys and attics in the gable end, with two 19th-century casement windows that have cambered heads. There is an early 20th-century gabled brick porch at the junction of the two wings and a later weatherboarded outshut at the rear.

Inside the earliest wing, there is a green port roof that contains remains of the original wattle and daub chimney with brick nogging and nailed studs. The pegged timbers show sooting beyond the later stair. The parlour wing features a wider staircase and a chamfered spine beam with lambs tongue steps and a carved bracket to the main post. The ground floor room has an early 19th-century wooden fire surround with brackets and a cupboard recess, along with 19th-century plank doors leading to the parlour and best bedroom. This house is believed to have been the residence of early incumbents of the adjoining Parish church. Before the Dissolution, the land belonged to Newark Priory but was leased to Sir Edward Newly, Chaplain of Pirbright. The land was vested in the crown under a statute of Edward VI in 1547.