Vine Cottage And Old Farm Cottage

A house, now two cottages, dating to the mid-17th century, with alterations, extensions, and division occurring in the late 19th century. The building is timber-framed with large plastered panels painted white, and has a plain tile roof with three gabled half dormers at the front; the rear of the dormers have cat-slide roofs. There are brick axial and gable-end stacks, one to the right and one to the left. Originally a single-depth range of two rooms with gable-end stacks, the right-hand room served as a hall/kitchen and the smaller left-hand room a parlour. A short extension was added to the right-hand end, and outshuts were added along the back of the range when the house was divided into two cottages.

The exterior is single-storey and attic, with an asymmetrical front divided into three zones of square panels, and a shallow top zone added in the late 19th century to raise the eaves level. No. 101 has a lean-to roofed porch at the left, and No. 103 has a gabled porch to the right. There are 19th-century bay windows with three-light casements to either side of the porches, and casement windows with diamond-leaded panes in the dormers. The left gable-end wall shows original panel framing and principal rafters to the original gable with curved struts in the apex, below the later raised roof pitch. The right-hand gable-end wall has imitation framing.

Inside No. 101, the front room has deeply chamfered intersecting ceiling beams, scratch-moulded joists in the ceiling compartments, and a 20th-century staircase in a rear corner. No. 103 is believed to contain a large original fireplace.