Yankee Cottage

Yankee Cottage is a small house dating from the late 16th century to early 17th century, with some renovations and additions made in the late 20th century. The building features colourwashed rendered cob on stone rubble footings and has a thatched roof that is half-hipped at the right end and gabled at the left end. There is a left end stack with a brick shaft.

The current layout is a single-depth, south-facing range that is two rooms wide, with a direct entrance into the left-hand (west) room. A flat-roofed, single-storey lean-to bathroom addition has been added at the right (east) end, along with a single-storey rear addition. It is likely that the house is a truncated or rebuilt version of a larger structure from the late 16th or early 17th century. The left-hand room retains carpentry and joinery details from this period, including a bread oven and a jointed cruck roof truss. It is uncertain whether this room served as a lower end parlour with a passage and higher end to the right (east) that have been rebuilt and possibly reduced in size, or if it was the higher end with the lower end and passage missing from the left (west) side, where the lane now runs.

The exterior is two storeys high and features an almost symmetrical two-window front, with thatch eaves gabled over the first-floor windows. There is an approximately central 20th-century front door with a thatched porch supported by posts, and small-pane timber casement windows that are late 20th-century copies of 19th-century windows.

Inside, the left-hand room displays late 16th/17th-century carpentry, including two chamfered stopped crossbeams (one possibly re-sited), exposed joists (some renewed), and an open fireplace with a chamfered stopped lintel and a bread oven. A plank and muntin screen, with chamfered and stopped muntins facing the left-hand room, divides the two rooms. This screen has been truncated at the rear to accommodate a later staircase that rises from the right-hand room. The roof features a jointed cruck truss located approximately in the center of the house, with side-pegged crucks and a diagonally-set ridge. Peg holes indicate that the truss was infilled at one time. Overall, Yankee Cottage is a late 16th/early 17th-century house that has been remodeled into a cottage.