Easter Cottage

Easter Cottage is a house that likely dates back to the mid-17th century, with the left end rebuilt in the 18th or 19th century and a 20th-century extension at the extreme left end, which was built on the site of a former adjoining outbuilding. The building is whitewashed and plastered, likely made of cob on stone rubble footings, and features a thatched roof with gabled ends, while the addition has a tiled roof. It has an axial stack with a rendered shaft and a stack at the front left corner.

The original plan of the house was probably a two or three-room layout with a through passage, with the lower end located to the left. The higher end contains a high-quality heated room with a stack backing onto the former passage, as well as a second unheated room. The left-hand end appears to have been rebuilt in the 18th or 19th century and includes a rear outshut.

The exterior of the house faces the street and is two storeys high, featuring an asymmetrical four-window front. There is a 20th-century door to the left of centre leading to the former passage, with an opposed rear door and another 20th-century doorway leading to the right-hand room. The windows are 20th-century timber constructions with glazing bars. The rear elevation has two first-floor windows and two ground-floor windows, with the rear entrance leading into the outshut.

Inside, the right-hand rooms boast fine ovolo-moulded crossbeams with elaborate urn stops. The axial stack fireplace includes a timber lintel and a bread oven. There are mortises for the former lower end partition to the passage that are still visible in a crossbeam, while the lower end room features thinly-spaced exposed crossbeams, a corner fireplace, and a rear right stair. The roof has not been thoroughly inspected, but it contains two types of roof truss: a probably late 18th or 19th-century type over the lower end and, at a lower level beneath the old thatch, a truss with a lap dovetailed collar, likely from the mid-17th century, over the heated room. Easter Cottage is part of a row of closely spaced 17th-century and earlier houses in the village, positioned end on to the street.