Tudor Cottage

Tudor Cottage is a house dating from the late 16th to early 17th century, constructed from plastered cob on rubble footings, with a stone rubble stack topped with 19th and 20th-century brick, and a thatched roof. This L-shaped corner house has a main roof that is continuous with the adjoining Wayside to the west and features an east-facing gable end, along with a short cross roof to the south adjoining Sunnybank. The house consists of two rooms, with the main room spanning the full east-facing front, which has a rear lateral stack and a front winder stair that slightly projects externally at the left (south) end. There is also a small unheated rear room.

The main east front features a roughly central 19th-century four-panel front door, with a late 19th to early 20th-century casement window to the right and another above. To the left, there is a projecting newel turret that includes a small late 17th-century oak stair window with three lights, where the mullions have chamfered front edges. The north-facing side wall contains two late 19th to early 20th-century casements, with the ground floor window on the left and the first floor window on the right.

Inside, the interior is largely original. The main room has a chamfered and step-stopped cross beam with scratch-moulded joists that have different mouldings on either side of the beam. The volcanic stone fireplace features a soffit-chamfered oak lintel and an inserted brick oven with a cast iron door, which has been reduced in size. The winder stair may be a replacement of the original but is nonetheless attached to the wall. The tie division between the two rooms and both party walls are made of cob up to the wall top level, with original tie beam closed trusses above, except for the west party wall (to Wayside), where the ridge is simply supported by a post. The original common rafters and purlins are still intact, and the crosswing roof may be slightly later than the main roof. The original woven hazel twig infill of the southern party wall (to Sunnybank) is exposed in the roof space.

Tudor Cottage is located in Coleford, a remarkably unspoilt and picturesque hamlet, where it occupies an important visual position.