The Mercers House, The Weavers Cottage And Vine Cottage

The Mercer’s House, The Weaver’s Cottage, and Vine Cottage comprise three attached dwellings, originally a single house. The core of the building dates back to the 15th century, with additions made around 1500 and in the late 16th century. The stone facing was added in the mid-to-late 16th century, with further work in the early and late 17th centuries. The construction utilizes timber framing, ashlar, coursed rubble limestone, and a concrete replacement tile roof.

The main range, formerly the hall, runs parallel to the road. Two-storey wings were added to the east side, and a two-storey former weaving shop extends to the west. The front of the house features a stone gable on the left, refaced in the mid-to-late 16th century, with a single window on each floor and in the attic. The windows are 3-light recessed cavetto mullions with thick mullions and hood moulds, except for a single light in the attic. An altered doorway to the right has a flat porch hood with a reset oval window above. Two projecting gables on the right have random rubble on the ground floor and close studding with a middle rail, each containing a single casement; the left window is timber mullioned and transomed, while the right has a 20th-century casement. A 20th-century lean-to porch addition is on the south side of the east wing, above which the junction of the gabled wings is visible, having been extended further with close studding. An upper-floor opening on the south side, formerly giving access to a timber-framed lean-to porch (recorded in early photographs), is also present. The south side of the main range features a gable with a double chimney, gable-mounted and with moulded caps.

To the left, a timber-framed former early 16th-century weaving shop extends, with a continuous upper-floor jetty; the ground floor was originally windowless, now containing 20th-century casements and a porch addition. The upper floor has square framing with curved passing braces. The north side has two stone gables, the right one featuring a large projecting chimney stack with a moulded cap, and a 2-light recessed cavetto mullioned casement with a hood mould on the upper floor. The left gable, likely from the late 17th century, has two windows, some of which have been altered, and is primarily cavetto mullioned.

The rear of the house has two stone gables on the main range, the earlier one on the right. Most windows on the ground and upper floors are 3-light, except for a 4-light window on the ground floor of the left gable. Small attic lights are also present. A gable end of the former weaver's shop shows random rubble infill below the jetty.

Inside the former open hall of the main range, a cruck blade survives, along with part of the original external wall featuring two windows with diagonal-set wooden mullions. A room on the north side of the house retains a moulded stone chimney and a plank and muntin partition on the upper floor. The building is of significant historical importance, demonstrating an evolution in usage patterns, and was illustrated in publications from 1905 and 1972.