Vine Cottages

The two cottages, now numbered 1 and 2, are likely of 17th-century origin, although they were significantly altered and refronted in the 19th century, with further alterations and a rear range added in the 1930s. The timber frame, originally visible, has been replaced or clad in flint with brick dressings. The end chimney bays are of flint with thin red brick quoins, and the stacks have been rebuilt in brick. The roof is covered with plain tiles but was formerly thatched.

The cottages are arranged as a 3-bay, 1 1/2-storey structure. They have 1930s hipped brick porches with board doors. The ground-floor windows are grouped as 3, 2, and 3 lights, each with a segmental brick arch; the central window’s arch is made of older red bricks, while the outer windows have glazed blue bricks. The first-floor windows were heightened in the 1930s to break the eaves and follow the hipped roofline. One end of the roof is hipped.

Inside No. 2, there is an inglenook fireplace with a chamfered timber bressumer, a brick bread-oven on the right, and a likely smoking-chamber flue on the left. The original spine beam has a run-out chamfer and pegged joists with stepped stops. The first floor retains wide floorboards. The roof structure includes a partly wattle and daub partition wall, old pegged rafters and collars supporting trenched purlins. No. 1 retains some exposed timbers from the original frame, along with old beams and joists.