Doris'S Cottage

Doris's Cottage is a small detached cottage that was originally a small hall house, dating from the 15th century, with alterations made in the 17th and 19th centuries. It is constructed from timber framing with square panels, featuring some original plastered wattle and daub infill and brickwork. The cottage is faced in brick on the south and west sides, standing on a plinth made of both stone and brick. The roof is covered with pantiles and is raised above the remains of the original thatched medieval roof, which is still in place. There is a 17th-century brick stack on the south side with an end flue.

The building is a single-storey hall house with two bays, where both the hall and the adjoining chamber are open to the roof. In the 19th century, it was converted into two cottages, each with a door on the west side. The roof features clasped purlins, a queen strut collar, and dual-braced tie beams, with a blackened central truss and rafters still visible. On the east side, there is an original segmental-headed doorway on the left that has been blocked by a later stack, along with a former window above that is also blocked, and a present wide doorway to the right.

The 17th-century alterations include brick nogging in the frame panels, a brick stack on the south gable end, a chamfered bressumer over the fireplace, and the insertion of a ceiling for the attic, with joists resting on chamfered and ogee-stopped spine beams supported by jowled inserted posts. There is also a two-light wood mullion window in the attic on the south gable end. The 19th-century conversion into two cottages involved refacing the west wall in brick, adding two boarded doors and two two-light casements, as well as a small brick lean-to on the south gable end. This building is a very rare example of a small two-cell late medieval hall house that retains its original single plan form and many features from the 15th and 17th centuries.