Minstrel Cottage

Minstrel Cottage is a house that dates from the 15th to early 16th century and the 17th century. It has a timber frame with whitewashed brick infill and a rubble stone plinth. The roof is thatched and half-hipped to the right, over a weatherboarded outbuilding that is one bay wide. There is a rebuilt brick chimney with pilasters between the left bays. The taller 17th-century bay on the left is 1½ storeys high and features three-light leaded casements, with the ground floor window having a board hood and the upper window set in thatch. The two lower bays to the right are one storey with an attic and have paired leaded casements on the ground floor, along with a lobby entry to the left. There is a lean-to at the left end with a hipped thatch roof. The right bay of the house has flanking cruck trusses, and the centre bay includes a stop-chamfered spine beam.