Yeoman's Cottage

Yeoman's Cottage is a house dating from 1637, with alterations and extensions made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It features a timber-framed structure with a rendered front and a rear made of pink-brown brick in stretcher bond. The roof is covered with pantiles, and there are brick and rendered stacks. The layout consists of three cells with a lobby-entry plan and a continuous outshut, with the left bay being an extension. The building is two stories high and has a four-window front. The central right section has panelled double doors set in a gabled projecting porch, above which is a datestone carved in shallow relief that reads: Anno Dom .16 * 37. . R T . * The windows are small-pane, horizontal sliding sashes, with three lights on the ground floor and two lights on the first floor. There are stacks on the centre right and left, as well as an external stack on the right end.

Inside, six braced posts from four pairs are visible, raised on padstones. On the ground floor, in the room to the left of the entrance, the original bressummer and a plank door on cockshead hinges are preserved. Both rooms to the left of the entrance feature massive chamfer-stopped spine beams, chamfered joists, and a stud partition wall, with studding remaining in the rear wall of the left room. In the right end room, a 19th-century firegrate and breadoven, made by Barker of Easingwold, have been inserted beneath a chamfered bressummer, with a plank door at the rear. There are closed string staircases from the 19th century in the outshut, featuring stick balusters, a ramped-up handrail, and tapered turned newels. At the left end of the outshut is the original dairy, which is half sunk into the ground. On the first floor, wall studding is still visible between the rooms to the left of the entrance.