Thatched Cottage

Thatched Cottage is a house dating from around the mid to late 16th century, which was restored in the 1960s. It features a timber frame with plastered panels, a stone plinth, and dressed stone gable-end walls, topped by a thatched roof with gabled ends. The northwest gable-end has a stone stack with weathering and a rebuilt red brick shaft.

The house has a two-room plan, with a large hall kitchen on the left (northwest) and a smaller unheated service room on the right. There are split-level floors; above the hall/kitchen is the main bedchamber, while the service room is a cellar at a lower ground level. Above the cellar, there are two chambers, one above the other, accessed by a separate staircase from the main bedchamber. There is a 20th-century outshut on the northwest end.

The exterior is two storeys high, with an attic and cellar. The southwest front is asymmetrical, featuring square framing and various small leaded-pane casements. The first floor on the right and the ground floor on the left have shallow oriels, with the eaves broken on the left by a dormer and a higher-level dormer in thatch on the right. The front also has a plank door on the left. At the rear (northeast), there is a row of four casements under the eaves on the left and a shallow oriel at the centre. The windows have been restored or replaced, and there is a weatherboarded outshut on the northwest gable end.

Inside, the cottage has exposed wall framing. The hall/kitchen features a deeply chamfered cross-beam with straight-cut stops, unchamfered joists, and a large stone fireplace with a chamfered timber bressumer and an oven with a small iron door. There are two staircases: one rises from the rear right corner of the hall/kitchen, and the other is located at the back of the service room. The main bedchamber includes a chamfered stone fireplace with high stops, and the roof is ceiled.

It is noted that the cottage is said to be recorded in estate records of the Manor of Sherbourne, dated 1567.