Old Court Cottage

Old Court Cottage is a historic house dating from around 1190 to 1200, with later alterations from the late 14th century and a 16th-century crosswing to the south, which includes an inserted 17th-century stack. The building features a timber frame with a rubblestone and render plinth, brick underbuilding, and rendered infill above. It has a steep, plain-tiled hipped roof with end gablets and a diagonal stack on the right side. Originally, it had an aisled hall of two bays with a two-bay crosswing to the south. The cottage is two storeys high and has four leaded casement windows on the first floor, with a ground floor window in the centre beneath a shallow tile pent roof. There is a part-glazed planked door to the right and another door to the left under a shallow flat porch hood supported by brackets. A pent roof brick addition is located at the left end, and the right-hand return front features a jettied first floor.

Inside, the cottage retains aisle posts and arcade plates from its earliest phase, pointed service doorways, and exposed framing from the 14th-century alterations. Notably, two very rare carved capitals with foliage carving survive in an upstairs room. This building is recognized as an outstandingly important early example of framed construction in the South of England, as noted by R.T. Mason in his work "Framed buildings of the Weald." An article titled "Old Court Cottage, Limpsfield" by R.T. Mason was published in the Surrey Archaeology Society Collections, Volume 63, in 1966.