Bishop'S Cottage

Bishop's Cottage is a late 18th-century farmhouse that has been converted into a house. It stands on the site of an earlier building that was destroyed by fire. The cottage is constructed of colourwashed flint with brick quoins and banding on a brick sill, topped with a thatched roof. It has two storeys and three bays. The central door has been replaced by a window, and all windows are 19th-century paired casements set within segmental headed openings. There is a boarded door in a lean-to on the left, which is enclosed in a glass porch. The eaves feature offsetting brick courses, and there are gable stacks. At the rear, there is a continuous lean-to that was formerly a dairy, along with a rear wing on the left that now contains the kitchen. The interior has been altered, but the original kitchen was likely in the left bay fireplace. There is a spine beam in the living room and wattle and daub partitions on the first floor. The original staircase was located in the outshut. Richard Bishop, a bricklayer, built the cottage after acquiring the site in 1789 and sold it in 1804.