5, Fort End

No. 5, Fort End is a house dating back to the medieval period with substantial alterations in the 17th century. It is constructed of wichter, which is a type of timber lath and plaster, rendered and colourwashed, and has a thatched roof. The house is one storey high with an attic. It has three bays. The south elevation features two 19th-century sash windows, a door, a three-light casement window in the centre, and a blocked door with a casement and sash windows to the right. Dormer windows are visible in the attic; two on the left, a central eyebrow dormer with a horizontal sliding sash, and one on the right with a sash window. In 1968, the east bay was added to replace a previous cottage (No. 3, Fort End).

The interior retains a cruck truss in the east wall, featuring chamfered blades and a wide collar-beam with small arch braces, also chamfered. Originally, this truss was in the centre of a two-bay open hall, with the eastern bay situated on the site of the modern link block connecting numbers 1 and 5. A similar cruck truss is found between the right-hand bays. Exposed timbers are visible throughout. A large stone chimney stack is a prominent feature, incorporating an inglenook and a brick flue.