280, ABLINGTON

No 280 is a cottage dating from the late 17th century. It features a timber frame with brick noggings and a thatched roof. The building is single storey with an attic and consists of three bays. The layout includes a living room with an axial stack and an originally unheated inner parlour. There is a service room behind the stack, which is likely a later addition and now contains a lobby entrance with a half-glazed door and a service door within a 20th-century porch on the gable end. The framing consists of two panels high with some corner braces and irregular framing, including a tension brace at the service end. The cottage has timber casement windows and two flush gabled dormers on the main bays. The roof is half hipped and features a brick stack. Inside, the spine beam in the living room and parlour is chamfered with ogee stops, and the partition between these rooms has been removed. The posts are jowled, and there are straight wind braces only at the parlour end. The stack has been rebuilt and includes an open fireplace from the 20th century.