Church Cottage

Church Cottage is a cottage with origins in the 17th century, and later additions from the 20th century. The walls are colourwashed and rendered, likely constructed of cob and stone, and the roof is thatched with gabled ends. A brick chimney stack is located at the left end. The 20th-century additions include a flat-roofed section. The original house appears to be unusually small, comprised of a single depth with one heated room to the left (heated by the left end stack) and a narrow, unheated room to the right. Evidence suggests the building was never larger than its current size, and a hip cruck roof at the right end, now gabled, implies it did not extend further to the right.

The cottage has an asymmetrical two-bay to one-bay front. The eaves are thatched and extend over two first-floor windows, each with two lights and three panes per light. A 20th-century door with glazing bars is positioned at the extreme left, a two-light casement with six panes is in the middle, and another 20th-century casement with glazing bars is to the right. A single-storey, flat-roofed addition adjoins the right end and rear right, wrapping around the northeast corner of the original 17th-century building. A newer entrance has been created into the modern addition.

Inside the original cottage, there are only two roof bays, featuring a side-pegged, jointed cruck truss with a renewed collar. A curved, unjointed timber at the right end is believed to be a hip cruck. Surviving 17th century features on the ground floor include an open fireplace in the left-hand hall/kitchen, with stone rubble jambs, a chamfered lintel with straight-cut stops, and a bread oven. The doorway into the hall/kitchen also has a chamfered, cranked head. A partition wall separates the two ground floor rooms and the stairwell, which is now accessed from the modern addition. The stair may have originally been positioned against the rear wall of the unheated room. Church Cottage is an unusually small, low 17th-century house that contributes to the character of the buildings surrounding the churchyard.