Juniper Cottage

Juniper Cottage is a detached cottage that likely dates back to the 15th century, with alterations made in the 17th and 19th centuries. It features square-panelled timber framing, with brick and rubble stone at the rebuilt solar end. The cottage has a thatched roof that is half-hipped on the left and hipped on the right, along with an axial brick stack. It is designed as a hall house with a 1½ bay former open hall, which is separated from a 2-storey, 1-bay unheated service end by a through passage. The solar range to the west was rebuilt in two storeys, probably in the 17th century.

The front of the cottage has two storeys and three windows. On the left, there is a planked door and a 2-light casement, while the right side features two 2-light casements and a blocked door. The first floor has an eyebrow dormer with a 2-light casement on the left and two 2-light casements on the right. The left return has two 2-light casements and an exposed full cruck. The rear includes 20th-century casements and a 20th-century conservatory, with the solar range set back from the hall.

Inside, the cottage retains many features of the hall house, along with 17th-century insertions, although the rebuilding of the solar has obscured evidence of the late Medieval phase at that end. The through passage has a 17th-century plank and muntin partition on the hall side of the former screen, with a beam that retains wattle holes for the screen. The service end has a heavy chamfered beam and exposed joists. There are open fireplaces in the inserted stack of the half-bay of the hall, featuring chamfered lintels on stone jambs, and an inserted ceiling with chamfered beams. A winding staircase is located at the rear of the hall. The first floor over the hall showcases an exposed full cruck with an arch-braced cambered collar, a chamfered soffit, and an ogee apex to the arch-brace, along with chamfered purlins and curved windbracing, all made from heavy scantling. Juniper Cottage is one of several notable examples of cruck-built hall houses in the Nadder Valley.