Gable Cottage

Gable Cottage is a house dating from the 16th and 17th centuries. It was formerly part of a single house but now has a break in the middle, with Gable Cottage serving as the south crosswing and Summers Cottage as the north crosswing. The structure is timber-framed with brick infill on a rubblestone plinth, while the street-facing gable elevation features 19th-century brickwork. The rear wing has a timber-framed upper floor and a rubblestone ground floor, with the upper floor of the left bay also made of rubblestone on the south side. The building has old tile roofs and stands two storeys plus an attic high. The gabled front faces the road and includes two two-light leaded casements with segmental arched heads, herringbone infill in the framed gable, and a board door in the left bay. This door is set beneath a jettied upper floor supported by a moulded bressumer and cut brackets, and there is a two-light leaded casement on the first floor. The left or north elevation shows two blocked fireplaces with depressed brick arches, which were previously used to heat the now-missing central range. The rear wing features one three-light ovolo mullioned window on the north side, with the remaining windows being two and three-light casements. Inside, the cottage has chamfered and stopped spine beams and much exposed framing. Gable Cottage and Summers Cottage were originally known as 'The Dower House'.