Spring Cottage

Spring Cottage is a late 15th-century cottage that has been altered in the 16th and 17th centuries. Originally, it may have been timber-framed, but now its walls are made of rubble stone, topped with a thatched roof that features a coped gable at the left end. The cottage has a brick stack at the left end and a stone stack to the right of the door. It is one storey high with an attic. The entrance has a ledged door leading into a cross-passage. On the ground floor, there are three casement windows with lead lights, and the attic includes one dormer with similar casements.

Inside, the entire roof is smoke-blackened, indicating that the house was originally open throughout. There are remnants of the original wattle ceiling, which is now hidden by more recent lining. The structure includes two cruck trusses and one collar truss. The lower end room, located at the left end and currently used as a garage, features a deep chamfered ceiling beam. The hall has an inserted intersecting moulded beamed ceiling and a 16th-century inserted stack with a moulded timber lintel and jambs. A heavy plank and muntin partition separates the hall from the inner room, complete with a shouldered arched doorway. The head beam of the partition is notched for joists, which, below the present ceiling level, may suggest an internal jetty. This small house is of exceptional interest. The 19th-century cottage it is now attached to is not of special interest.