Batch Cottage

Batch Cottage is a farmhouse that has been converted into a house. It dates from the late 15th century to early 16th century, with extensions added to the left in the early 17th century and to the right in the mid-18th century. The building was refronted in 1916, during which the eaves were raised. The exterior features render over limestone rubble and a gabled pantile roof, with rendered brick stacks at the ends and ridge.

The cottage has a three-unit plan and is two stories high, with a three-window range. To the right, there is a lower two-storey, two-window range that includes a gabled 20th-century porch. The windows are 20th-century two to three-light casements with timber lintels, and there is a half-glazed door to the left. The central bay of the rear elevation has early 17th-century two and three-light ovolo-moulded wood-mullioned windows, and there is a 20th-century flat-roofed extension to the right, likely incorporating part of a 17th-century stair projection.

Inside, the central section from the late 15th century to early 16th century features chamfered ogee-stopped beams. The transverse beam on the left has morticing on the soffit, indicating the original position of a cross-passage. The late 15th to early 17th-century fireplace on the right has chamfered stone jambs and a 17th-century ovolo-moulded wood lintel, along with a mid-18th-century bread oven. The roof consists of three bays with trenching for through purlins, supported by two jointed crucks with 17th-century butt purlins. The early 17th-century bay to the left has ogee-stopped chamfered beams, while the mid-18th-century bay to the right has a two-bay roof with butt purlins to a collar truss. Batch Cottage is an early example of a storeyed late medieval house.