The Old Cottage

The Old Cottage is a farmhouse that was later used as a bakery and is now a house. It likely dates from the late 17th century and was enlarged in the late 18th century or early 19th century, with alterations made in the 20th century. The building features a timber frame and brick construction, now covered in roughcast painted white, with a red tile roof on two levels.

The structure consists of three main bays with a continuous rear outshut, plus a one-bay addition on the right (west) end and a lean-to addition on the left end. It has two storeys, with three first-floor windows in the main range. On the ground floor, the first and second bays have a blocked former doorway at their junction, a three-light casement window to the left, and an 18-pane fixed window to the right, all beneath a black-painted fascia board. The third bay also features a three-light casement. The first floor has three similar casements, while the lean-to on the left has a four-pane sash window.

The roof includes a dormer over the third bay, and the chimney at the right-hand gable rises from the stack at the original gable wall, which is detached from this gable but attached to that of the addition, which is higher and has no front openings. The right-hand return wall of the addition has a 12-pane sash window on each floor and a modern porch at the rear. The rear of the building has a catslide roof on the outshut of the main range, which has been raised at the east end and features a wide inserted dormer at the west end, along with various modern windows.

Inside, there is a large lateral beam at the junction of the first and second bays with blocked mortices from a former partition, and a timber-framed partition at the junction of the second bays. There is a large inglenook fireplace with a timber bressummer at the former west gable wall. Under the staircase in this room, there is a muntin-and-rail door with H-hinges, and the wall posts and tie beams are exposed on the first floor.

Historically, the cottage was occupied by the Arthur family from the late 17th century and served as a bakery house in the 19th century. It was known as "Ordnance Cottage" from around 1870 to 1920.