Lamb Cottages

Lamb Cottages, comprising numbers 1 and 2, are two dwellings with a complex history. Number 1 originates as a 16th century, two-bay timber-framed building with an external chimney stack, significantly altered and refronted in the mid-19th century. Number 2 is largely a mid-19th century public house extension, but crucially retains one bedroom within the earlier structure due to a flying freehold.

Number 1’s timber frame has been refronted with painted brick on the ground floor and tile hanging with bands of curved tiles on the first floor. It has a tiled roof, two storeys and two windows, with two gabled dormers featuring wooden bargeboards and triple casement windows. The first floor has triple casement windows, and the ground floor includes a later square bay to the right and a three-light casement to the left. A central doorcase with a flat wooden hood covers a plank door, and an external brick chimney stack stands to the left.

Number 2 has a ground floor of brown brick, red brick dressings and a tile-hung first floor with a pattern of curved tiles. It has a half-hipped tiled roof, two storeys and one window. The facade includes a casement window and a left-side doorcase with a gabled wooden weatherhood on brackets.

The interior of number 1 retains square framing with diagonal wind braces, alongside some wattle and daub in the walls and old oak floor boards. A bressumer is present over the fireplace, which incorporates a spice cupboard and bread oven, and a chamfered spine beam with a lamb's tongue stop. Property deeds date back to 1703.