The Old Cottage

The Old Cottage is a house, originally an open hall, dating back to around 1530. It consists of a 2-bay open hall of timber-frame construction, with a slightly later 2-storey bay added to the north, and an outshut of around 1700. The building was constructed endwise to the road.

The east elevation shows the hall wing to the south and the later storeyed bay to the north. The ground floor is painted brick, while the first floor is plastered and weatherboarded. A central brick stack sits above a late 16th-century inserted chimney breast. There are three windows visible on this elevation. The hall section has two small 2-light windows to the first floor, with the northern one believed to be from around 1600 and retaining its fretted latch. Two renewed casement windows are on the ground floor, alongside a ledged door. The north bay has a 2-light window above and a 2-light window and a ledged door with a simple pediment below. The north elevation is gable fronted, with the ground floor in painted brick and the first floor weatherboarded with plain barge-boards. A 2-light leaded casement window is on the first floor, and a larger 2-light casement with small panes and wooden glazing bars is on the ground floor.

The roof forms a catslide over the outshut on the west side, which dates to around 1700. Inside the hall, the roof was formerly hipped and retains a light crust of smoke blackening at the north end. The timber framework is partly visible and supports a side purlin roof. The chimney breast is made of sandstone with tumbling, set under Horsham stone slabs, with a shaft of late 16th-century bricks above. An inglenook fireplace features a stepped and chamfered bressummer, with a brick jamb on the left and a sandstone jamb on the right. The ground floor has exposed beams and joists, revealing sets of carpenter's marks.