Riders Beer

Riders Beer is a cottage that was originally two separate cottages, built in the mid to late 17th century. It was modernized and enlarged into a single house around 1970. The structure is made of plastered cob on stone rubble footings, with cob or stone rubble stacks topped with 20th-century brick, and a thatched roof, while the extension has a concrete tile roof.

Originally, the two cottages had a one-room plan each, facing southwest. The left former cottage features a gable-end stack, while the right former cottage has a rear diagonal corner stack against the party wall. The two cottages have since been combined into one home. The single-storey extension added in the 1970s was built on the site of a third cottage. The main house is two storeys high.

The exterior of the main house has an irregular two-window front with 20th-century casements that include glazing bars, with the first-floor windows rising slightly into the eaves. The doorways from the original cottages, located at each end of the main block, now have 20th-century glazed doors, with the left doorway featuring a 20th-century porch. The extension is set back from the main front and has a three-window front of 20th-century casements. Both the main roof and the extension have gable ends.

Inside the main block, there are 17th-century carpentry details. The left room has a roughly soffit-chamfered crossbeam, similar to the oak lintel of the fireplace, which is now lined with brick. The right room features a soffit-chamfered and step-stopped axial beam, and the oak lintel of its fireplace has a plain soffit chamfer. The roofspace is not accessible, but the bases of straight principals suggest that they are part of 17th-century A-frame roof trusses. The location of these cottages near the kitchen garden walls of Fuidge Manor indicates that they likely served as laborer's cottages for the larger estate.