Lane End Cottages

Lane End Cottages are two houses dating from the late 17th century, constructed from plastered cob on rubble footings, with rubble stacks topped by 19th and 20th-century brick. They are located along a cobbled lane to the northeast and were built as a pair of two-room double-depth houses, with the left house featuring a secondary single-depth extension that has been converted into a garage. The right house has a central entrance lobby and end stacks, while the left house has an axial stack. Both cottages are two storeys high and present an irregular six-window front, featuring various late 19th and 20th-century casements, some without glazing bars, and a horizontal-sliding sash window to the right of the right cottage door. The right house has a 19th-century panelled door with a flat hood supported by shaped brackets, while the left house retains its original late 17th-century two-fielded panel door.

The rear elevation is more balanced, with the north-west cottage (the right cottage) displaying a two-window front of 19th-century casements, including small glass panes on the first floor, and a central 19th-century six-panel door with a gabled porch, shaped bargeboards, and trellis gable infill. The south-east cottage (the left cottage) has a three-window front of 20th-century casements. The interior of the right cottage features much original late 17th-century work, including an entrance hall lined with alternate plank screens with shallow ogee mouldings, some of which are only partly exposed. Similar screen partitions are found on the first floor. The rear left ground floor room includes a chamfered and scroll-stopped beam and an ashlar fireplace with a curving pentan and a plain oak lintel. Several doors from the late 17th to early 18th century are present, including plank-and-ledge doors, some with applied two-panel fronts, and two-fielded panel doors, most featuring original H hinges with trefoil terminals or HL hinges. The roof is inaccessible, but the lower parts of the principals suggest A-frame trusses. The interior of the left cottage has not been inspected.