Hampton Cottage

Hampton Cottage is a cottage that has been converted into a museum. It dates from the mid-17th century and has been altered and recently restored. The building features a timber frame made of elm, set on a modern brick plinth, with rendered brick nogging and a pantile roof. It has a rectangular plan consisting of three structural bays, with the gable facing the road.

The cottage is two storeys high, and the timber framing is exposed on both gable walls and on the north side, mostly above ground floor level. This includes corner and wall-posts, mid-rails, down-braces from the posts, regularly spaced studs, wallplates, and a roof truss in the east gable wall with two queen struts. The west gable wall appears to have been rebuilt. Some of the timbers display scratched carpenter's marks. The first bay on the north side features an unglazed wooden diamond-mullion window at the first floor, which now has secondary glazing inside.

The gabled facade facing the road includes a small oriel window and a casement window at ground floor, with an inserted two-light casement above that breaks into the tie-beam. The north side has a modern gabled porch offset to the left of centre, with a casement window to the left and another above and to the right. The south side has two external chimney stacks, one of which at the rear is likely from the 17th century. The rear gable wall has a doorway and a modern oriel window at ground floor, along with a two-light casement above.

Inside, the cottage features exposed timber framing and some wattle-and-daub panels, with a staircase inserted in the middle bay. Historically, the cottage was built on glebe land between 1642 and 1682 and was occupied at the latter date by the widow of a falconer.