Base Lane Cottage

Base Lane Cottage is a detached cottage that dates from the 15th century or earlier, with some features from the 18th century. The building has irregular square-panelled timber-framing with curved bracing, painted brick, and wattle and daub infill. It is topped with a thatched roof that has a decorative ridge and a brick stack. The main body of the cottage is rectangular and has one and a half storeys.

The upper floor is illuminated by two eyebrow dormers, which contain two and three-light casement windows. There are two plank doors, one located far right and another to the left, both flanked by two-light casements. The stack projects from the left wall, and there is a two-light casement with horizontal glazing bars set in a segmental-headed surround, along with two plank doors to the left. The left gable end is faced in brick and features an 18th-century two-light casement with horizontal glazing bars at the lower left, a similar two-light casement on the first floor, and an oval light towards the apex.

The rear wall shows visible timber-framing and has an early three-light window with roughly hewn square wood-mullions on the far right. The rest of the rear wall is lit by one, two, and three-light casements, most of which have horizontal glazing bars. The far left-hand window retains one light with early rectangular leaded panes. A fine central 18th-century composite stack is also present.

Inside, the cottage possibly contains six full cruck trusses with wind bracing. There is a spine beam in the central downstairs room, a large bread oven to the right of the open fireplace, and tie beams with ovolo-moulded stops. A large half cone moulding is found on the beam in the room on the far right-hand side of the ground floor, and there is a rectangular flat-chamfered stone fireplace.