Wallflower Cottage

Wallflower Cottage is a house dating back to the 17th century, with later alterations including a 1950s extension and rebuilding. It is timber-framed with brick infill and brick cladding; the ground floor is partly of rubblestone with some galleting and brick quoins. The roof is covered with plain clay tiles, and there is a brick chimney. The house is two storeys and originally consisted of two bays, with the entrance in the right-hand bay. A mid-20th century cross-wing extension now sits on the left.

The west side of the house features mid-20th century red brick in stretcher bond. The left bay has a 20th-century door under a hipped tile roof and a small, 2-light, 4-pane wooden window on the first floor. The right bay contains a 3-light metal window on each floor, with the first-floor window breaking the eaves under a tile-hung gable. A modern brick chimney is positioned on the right return, which is painted brick with tile offsets at the base of the chimney. The rear of the house has a rubblestone ground floor and square-panelled timber framing with straight tension braces above. A 3-light small-pane window is visible on the left, with a tile-hung section above, and a blocked window on the first floor to the left. A 2-light window is on the right, with a partly-removed mid-20th century external chimney to its left. On the left return, below the extension, is rubblestone at ground level.

Inside, the right-hand bay on the ground floor features an inglenook fireplace with a former bread-oven, niches, a chamfered timber bressumer, chamfered spine-beams with lambs tongue stops, and joists. Some further joists survive in the left bay. The first floor has a plank door. The exposed timber framing includes wall-posts, rails, studs, wall-plates, tension braces, and roof-trusses with cambered tie-beams, 3 posts up to the collar, and principal rafters, with straight wind-braces. In the roof space, the rafters are marked with carpenters’ numerals in the correct sequence.