St Christopher'S Cottage

St Christopher's Cottage is a house dating from the second half of the 16th century, with alterations from the 17th, 18th, and 20th centuries, including 18th-century cladding. It features a timber frame with wattle and daub infill, clad in galleted Bargate rubblestone with red brick dressings, and has a plain tile roof. The house consists of three bays, with a smoke-bay in the center. The left bay is partitioned off on both floors, and a fireplace was inserted with an outshut added to the rear right in the 17th century. The outshut was extended and the building clad in the 18th century.

The garden front has two storeys and two first-floor windows. It includes old brick quoins and later brick surrounds to the openings. The late 20th-century diamond-leaded door and windows are present. The door between the right-hand bays has a small square light to the right and windows of two and three lights to the left, along with two three-light windows on the first floor. A former ridge stack in line with the door has been removed, while a stack remains at the right end.

At the rear, the outshut on the left, which is the earliest part, is made of rubblestone and features buttresses, two two-light windows, and a catslide roof. The right side is of brick, heightened in the late 20th century with tile-hung walls. The right bay, at the rear of the main range, is made of painted brick in Flemish bond with a rubblestone plinth and a small ground-floor window. The right return has exposed wall posts and a tie-beam, a small bricked-up three-light window with a brick surround on the left, and another tiny blocked opening on the right. A late 20th-century porch has been added on the right but is not of special interest.

On the left return, there is a two-light window on each floor, and a line of the former flue is visible on the right. Inside, the former rear wall and the partition wall between the left-hand bays on both floors have exposed framing. The central bay features a brick inglenook with a bread oven, large scantling chamfered cross-beam, and square section joists in the left-hand and central bays. The truss between the left-hand bays has a cambered tie-beam with queen posts, collar, through purlins, and wattle and daub infill, along with a wattle and daub partition at the stack in the central bay.