Beck Isle Cottage the Thatched Cottage

Beck Isle Cottage, also known as The Thatched Cottage, is a house dating from the 17th century that has been raised, renovated, and extended in the 20th century. It features a cruck frame encased in squared sandstone at the front and coursed sandstone rubble on the sides and rear, topped with a thatched roof and brick stacks. The original layout was a 3-cell, hearth-passage plan, with a rear service wing added later. The cottage is 1½ storeys high, with a centre left 20th-century board door beneath a bracketed thatched porch. To the left of the door is a single 3-light, small-pane horizontal sliding sash window, and there are two similar windows to the right. The first-floor windows are eyebrow dormers with matching windows. All ground-floor windows have renewed timber lintels, and there is a stepped eaves course. The building has end and left of centre stacks, with the end left stack piercing the roof pitch.

Inside, three pairs of jointed full crucks remain, with one pair having a collar fully exposed in the ground-floor room to the right and parts of one blade of the other two pairs visible in the rear corners of both ground-floor rooms. In the right ground-floor room, there is a butterfly-hinged spice cupboard door, finely carved with a lozenge in the centre and a border of rosettes enclosed in a guilloche pattern.