Crooked Chimney Cottage

Crooked Chimney Cottage is a house dating from the 16th century, with 20th-century additions. It features a timber frame with exposed cruck trusses at the gables, and the infill is made of whitewashed brick, flint, and plaster. The roof is covered with old tiles, and there are flanking brick chimneys with crooked shafts, one of which was entirely rebuilt in 1985. The cottage is one storey high with an attic and consists of two bays. The windows are 20th-century wooden casements, with a two-light window on the ground floor to the left and three-light windows elsewhere. The upper windows are located in gabled dormers. There is a 20th-century board door to the left of centre. To the left, there is a 20th-century whitewashed brick extension, and at the centre rear, there is a tall 20th-century tile-hung jettied bay. Inside, the cottage has a central cruck truss with large curved braces extending from the transverse sill beam to the cruck blades, and both bays show signs of very early upper floors. The cruck blades end just above the collars.