The Thatched Cottage

The Thatched Cottage is a small house and adjoining cottage that has been combined into one dwelling. It dates from the 18th century and was extended around the early 19th century. The building features painted rubble and rendered cob, with wheat reed thatch covering the original house and asbestos slate on the cottage. There are brick chimneys on the original gable ends.

The layout consists of a two-room plan for the house, with a parlour on the left and a wider kitchen on the right, separated by an entrance lobby. The adjoining cottage, which has its entrance on the right, follows a one-room plan. The exterior is two storeys high and presents an overall three-window front, with one window for the cottage on the left and a nearly symmetrical two-window arrangement for the house on the right. The cottage has a blocked doorway on the right, a horned nine-pane sash window on the left, and a 20th-century casement window in a wider opening on the first floor. The house features a centrally located doorway, with all windows grouped towards the left. It has an old six-panel door, a shallow gabled porch, and four-pane horned sash windows. The interior has not been inspected. This building is one of only three houses still thatched in the parish.