Mitre Cottage

Mitre Cottage is a house that likely dates back to the 15th century, with alterations made in the 17th and 19th centuries. It is timber-framed and features 20th-century roughcast cement render over earlier lime render on the front, a thatched roof, and a brick ridge with a front lateral stack. Originally, it was a 3-bay hall house consisting of a 2-bay open hall and a 2-storey service bay. In the early 17th century, the hall was horizontally subdivided, and a stone stack was added to create a 2-unit through passage plan. The house is 2-storey with a 3-window range. There is a 19th-century six-panel door to the left of the center, which has glazed top panels and a straight hood supported by shaped brackets. To the right on the ground floor, there is a 3-light 20th-century casement window, and to the left, an 8-pane sash window, both with narrow straight hoods on small shaped brackets. The rear elevation features close studding on the first floor and has single-storey extensions on both the left and right sides.

Inside, the house has full cruck trusses at both ends and to the left of the center, all of which are closed trusses with collars and saddles supporting the ridge piece. The truss to the right of the center, which was formerly in the middle of the open hall, is smoke-blackened and has curved chamfered braces to the tie beam, which features two chamfers divided by a channel. A king strut is present at the collar, flanked by diagonal struts, with a similar arrangement above the collar that includes a thin king strut and saddle supporting the ridge piece. There are two tiers of wind-braced purlins, with chamfers, and the lower tier is trenched. The open fireplace has a stop-chamfered bressumer, and there is a stop-chamfered spine beam in the main ground floor room, along with some original stop-chamfered joists. A corner fireplace is located in the ground-floor room to the left of the entrance passage, and there is a winder stair leading to the first floor. Part of the house has served as a butcher's shop, and it was formerly connected to a cottage on the right, which was demolished in the 20th century for road widening. The cottage formed an L-plan with the surviving house and likely dates back to the 17th century.