Gatchell Cottage Gatchell Spinney

Gatchell Cottage and Gatchell Spinney is a late medieval farmhouse that has been converted into two dwellings. It dates from the early to mid-16th century and has undergone internal alterations. A jettied gable was added to the northwest, and the building was divided into two homes. It was refenestrated in the 19th century and restored around 1975. The structure features roughcast over cob with a timber-framed gable end, which has been infilled with brick, and the rear end has been rebuilt. The roof is plain tiled, with decorative bargeboards at the gable end. There is a large lateral stack to the right of the original entrance, a large external stepped stack on the west gable end, and a similar roughcast stack to the left of the cross passage.

The original plan consisted of three cells and a cross passage, which was partly open to the roof but has since been ceiled. The building is now divided into two dwellings, with an additional entrance to the right of the lateral stack. It has one and a half storeys and four bays, featuring mainly large 19th-century three-light leaded casements that rise from below the eaves in the upper storey. The original entrance is on the left, flanked by casements, with an additional entrance to the right of the lateral stack and a casement in the end bay to the right. There is a late medieval ogee-headed door frame to the right with a 20th-century door, and a 20th-century medieval-style doorway on the left. The west gable end has rating buttresses, and there is a catslide roof over a verandah at the rear, which is not visible.

The interior is not currently sighted but is said to contain remains of a stud and plank screen in the cross passage, an ovolo-moulded lintel and jambs at the hall fireplace, stop-chamfered beads with rounded steps and run-out stops, a framed partition with curved braces at the upper end of the hall, and a collar beam and cruck truss roof.