Church Cottage

Church Cottage is a house that was formerly a pair of cottages, and it may have originally served as a church house. It has origins dating back to the early 16th century, with remodelings in the 17th and 19th centuries. The structure is built of stone rubble and features a slate roof with gabled ends, along with brick end stacks and an axial stack.

The current layout consists of a single depth, four rooms wide, backing onto the churchyard. The house likely began as a late medieval open hall, although the smoke-blackening of the roof timbers is minimal, and the trusses at the left end are clean. The development of the house is somewhat unclear, as some evidence has been obscured by what is likely an 18th or 19th-century subdivision into cottages.

The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical four-window front. There is a gabled stone porch on the left and a 20th-century two-leaf glazed garden door with glazing bars on the right. The windows are 19th-century three-light timber casements with small panes. The rear elevation, which faces the churchyard, is set back at the right end and features one small one-light window with a timber lintel and one two-light casement on the ground floor, along with two first-floor windows, one one-light and one two-light casement.

Inside, the right-hand room has a notable open fireplace with a timber lintel, a chamfered step-stopped cross beam, and a plank and muntin screen. The left-hand stack is likely a modern addition. The roof consists of side-pegged jointed cruck trusses. Although there is no evidence of a partition reaching the apex, smoke-staining is limited to the trusses over the right end.