Tudor Cottage

Tudor Cottage is a house dating from the second half of the 15th century to the first half of the 16th century, with later alterations. It features a timber frame with painted wattle and daub infill, galleted rubblestone with brick dressings, and some tile hanging. The roof is covered with plain tiles and has a gable end facing the road.

The structure includes a 2-bay open hall, which likely originally had a third floored bay at the front (south-west) end. A floor was inserted later, along with a stair tower added to the left (north-west) side and an external stack on the right (south-east) side during the 17th century. Rubblestone outshuts were built on either side of the stair tower, probably in the early 18th century, and there is a single-storey addition from the 20th century projecting to the right of the stack. The windows throughout the building are 20th-century diamond-leaded designs.

The road elevation is made of rubblestone and has 1½ storeys with one bay, featuring a partly tile-hung outshut on the left under a catslide roof. There is a tile-hung band over the ground-floor windows, which have 2 and 5 lights, and 2-light windows on the first floor to the right, along with a single light in the tile-hung gable. A large rendered external stack with a tile offset and rebuilt brick top is located on the right, with the addition having a 2-light window.

The rear of the house is timber-framed, showcasing jowled wall posts, a mid-rail, wall plate, a large arch brace on the ground floor, and arched tension braces on the first floor. There is a 20th-century external stack with a small square window to the right on the ground floor and a 1-light window on each floor to the left. The roof is hipped with a gablet, and the outshut on the right has a 2-light window. The entrance is located in the 20th-century addition on the left.

The left return features a gabled stair tower flanked by outshuts, while the right return shows exposed timber framing on the first floor. The interior has not been inspected but is reported to have a timber-framed wall between the hall and outshut, with curved braces and probable framing for a hall window. There are two crown-post trusses, with the one at the front end having down braces for a closed truss, and the one between the bays being chamfered, braced in four directions, and resting on a cushioned base, with mitred-stopped chamfers to the wall posts and arched braces up to the tie beam.