The Cottage (Immediately West of Vine House)

House. Dating from the late 16th and early 17th century, it was remodelled and divided into three cottages in the late 18th and early 19th century. The original timber frame is visible at the rear, in the left-hand gable, and internally. The ground floor has a lias rubble plinth, and the main body of the building is rebuilt in a random, mostly Flemish bond brick. An original lias rubble rear lateral stack is finished in brick, while original side stacks at the right and left ends (to the lateral wall of a cross wing and adjoining cottage) were extensively rebuilt in the late 18th and early 19th century.

The house has one and a half storeys to the left of the main range, which has two storeys. The front has a 1:4 window arrangement with segmental and flat arches over early 20th-century 2-light casements; a plank door serves the cottage, and a half-glazed door serves the main house. A mid-20th-century French window is located to the left of the main range. A 20th-century outshut extends to the rear. This includes a late 19th-century timber porch with a glazed upper storey and 18th-century timber cross-transomed windows with original turnbuckles.

Inside, the 18th-century principal-rafter roof has tenoned purlins, reflecting a raising of the roof above the original wall plate level. 18th-century first-floor beams and plank doors are also present. A ground-floor room on the right retains a cased beam and an open fireplace with a chamfered bressumer. An old winder staircase leads to the first floor and attic. The ground-floor room in the center of the main range (originally the hall) has an open fireplace with a late 18th-century moulded overmantel and a fine gun rack with moulded brackets. To the left of the hall is a cross wing, originally gabled to the front, which retains much of its original timber frame with jowled storey posts to the timber-framed cross wall. The cottage on the left retains its timber frame to the rear and left gable. It also has an 18th-century winder staircase, an 18th-century moulded overmantel to an open fireplace with a mid-19th-century cast-iron range, and original deeply-chamfered beams.