Little Thatch

Little Thatch is a small cottage, likely built in the late 18th century to early 19th century, and modernized around 1975. It features plastered cob on stone rubble footings, with a brick stack that is topped with plastered brick and a thatch roof. Originally designed as a two-room plan cottage facing south, the two rooms have since been combined into one. The cottage has a right (east) end stack and service outshots at the rear, which may be original.

The building is two stories high and has a two-window front, consisting of a three-light casement window with glazing bars on the right and a small fixed light window on the left. There are no front windows on the first floor; instead, these are located on the end walls. Some of these windows date from the late 19th century, but most are 20th-century casements, all featuring glazing bars. The central doorway is fitted with a late 19th to early 20th-century stable-type door, which is sheltered by a circa 1976 open porch. This porch has a hipped thatch roof supported by heavy timber twisted baluster-type posts resting on low plastered side walls. The roof is gable-ended on the right and half-hipped on the left, and it extends continuously over the outshots at the rear.

The interior does not reveal any exposed carpentry details on the ground floor, and the roof was not inspected. It is notable that such a small cottage has survived without later extensions.