Manchester Cottage

Manchester Cottage is a house that dates from the late 15th century to the 19th century. It features a timber frame with wattle and daub, partially encased in brick and partly tile-hung, topped with an old plain tile roof. The original structure includes a late 15th-century hall and a crosswing, with an early 16th-century crosswing added to the other end, and an 18th-century gabled bay added to the side of the left wing at the front.

The hall has a doorway on the left with a 19th-century door and a flat hood supported by iron brackets. In the center, there is a 19th-century canted bay window with a hipped roof and a 19th-century sash window above it. The right crosswing has a brick end and tile-hung sides, featuring similar 19th-century sashes on the front. Between the wing and the hall, there is a ground-floor splay passage with a sloping roof. The left wing has a brick side and a tile-hung front, with a 20th-century three-light steel window on each floor and a blank added bay.

The roof is adorned with medieval-style coxcomb ridge tiles, and the wings are half-hipped. There is a large ridge stack at the right end of the hall and another at the left crosswing. Inside, the hall was floored over in the early 16th century, and the main beam has a moulded bottom face. A 17th-century chamfer-edged brick fireplace is located in the side passageway to the crosswing, which features an external splay. The roof over the hall has been rebuilt, but arched brace roofs remain in the crosswings.