Dawes Cottage

Dawes Cottage is a farmhouse, now a house, likely built in the early 16th century and enlarged in the late 16th century. It features a timber frame with rendered brick cladding on the ground floor, brick nogging above, along with some tile-hanging and red tile roofs. The building has an L-shaped plan, consisting of a hall range with three structural bays and a projecting wing added to the third bay.

The hall is one-and-a-half storeys high, while the wing is two storeys. The hall has a central doorway under a pitched canopy, a modern three-light casement window to the left, exposed posts and light studs above the ground floor, a small dormer window offset to the left of centre, and an axial ridge chimney offset to the right. The left gable wall features a ground floor window and a tile-hung gable with an attic window.

The projecting wing overlaps the right-hand end of the hall range and displays exposed wall-posts with convex braces to the tie-beam and an arched brace to the wall-plate of the re-entrant. It includes two queen struts and a king strut, a square modern window at ground floor, a two-light casement window at first floor, and a small two-light casement window on the ground floor of the re-entrant side, along with an external chimney stack on the return wall.

Inside, the hall range consists of three structural bays, with the centre bay narrower than the ends, now containing the chimney stack with back-to-back inglenook fireplaces. The timber framing features large stop-chamfered beams and joists at ground floor, jowelled wall-posts, wallplates, tie-beams, and one arch-brace. Vacant mortices in the posts of the second frame suggest that this frame was previously closed, possibly as part of a smoke bay. The wallplate at the front of the third bay has been removed to allow for the addition of the wing.