Cobwebs

Cobwebs is a detached house that was formerly two cottages, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, with significant modifications made in the 20th century. The building features some timber framing with brick nogging and brickwork, topped with a thatched roof. The original layout is unclear, but it now consists of one large room with a rebuilt fire opening on the left side, which is half-timbered, and a smaller room with higher ceilings on the right side, which is brick. The house has one storey and attics, with four windows.

On the ground floor, there are two 2-light and one 3-light timber casements; the latter is located to the right of a 20th-century plank door and is set between blocked former window openings that feature fine splayed 18th-century brick voussoirs. The upper floor has two 2-light 19th-century wood casements with eyebrow arches on the left and two closely set similar windows beneath the higher thatched eaves on the right side. Each gable end has a brick stack, and the right half has a slightly higher ridge. The left gable is rendered over the framing, while the right gable is brick.

The rear of the house is timber framed with brick nogging, a small area of chalk block, and some 17th-century brickwork. All windows and doors at the rear are from the 20th century, and there is a flat-roofed extension that is not of special interest. The interior has been heavily modified; the right half features a very heavy spine beam and a mixture of 18th and 20th-century ceiling joists, while the left half has a spine beam in two parts, supported by a 20th-century post, with a chamfer and run-out stops. The spine beams appear to have been repositioned, with the one on the right previously supporting a partition. There is a 20th-century stair, and although the roof structure is not accessible, it includes heavy, rough purlins in the left half that have been reused from floor beams. The heavy framework in the left half, which has diagonal struts, contains a mix of 17th, 18th, and 19th-century brickwork.