Stream Cottage

Stream Cottage is a timber-framed house, likely dating from the late 17th or early 18th century, with alterations and additions in the 19th and 20th centuries. The ground floor is faced with brick in a Flemish bond pattern, except for the south-east end which uses an English garden wall bond. It has a hipped tiled roof, originally thatched, with small gable ends and brick chimneystacks.

The house is a two-storey lobby entry plan, consisting of three bays, with a narrower central chimney bay containing an axial chimneystack. The ground floor originally contained a heated hall-kitchen on the north-west side and a service room (possibly originally divided) to the south-west, with access to a staircase leading to two unheated rooms above.

The north-west (entrance) front features two later 19th-century tripartite windows on the first floor, and two mid-20th-century metal casement windows on the ground floor. A central doorcase has a mid-20th-century door. The south-west end has a 19th-century horizontal sliding window on the first floor and a mid-20th-century metal-framed casement window on the ground floor, adjacent to a 19th-century external brick chimneystack in stretcher bond. The south-east side has three casement windows to the first floor. The ground floor on this side is cement-rendered, but a principal timber post is visible, and the central doorcase has a concrete porch. The north-west end has no windows.

Inside, the north-east ground-floor room retains an open fireplace with a wooden bressumer, incorporating a blocked bread oven, and a spine beam with two-inch chamfers and run-out stops. Similar floor joists are also chamfered at one inch. The south-west ground-floor room has a similar spine beam but un-chamfered floor joists, with visible wide floorboards above. A wooden early 19th-century fire surround with a narrow shelf on brackets is also present in this room. A 19th-century straight flight staircase, accessed through a ledged plank door, leads to the upper floor. On the first floor, the wall frame retains jowled bay posts, and a mid-rail is visible on the north-east side. The north-east room has tie beams and queenposts, along with a late 17th or early 18th-century cupboard with a ledged plank door above the lobby. Wide original floor boards are present throughout. The south-west room features angled queen struts. The roof structure shows pegged rafters and clasped side purlins with windbraces. Lash marks on some of the rafters indicate the presence of an original thatched roof covering.