Honeysuckle Cottage And Wibble Cottage

Honeysuckle Cottage and Wibble Cottage are a farmhouse and barn that have been converted into two cottages. They date from the late Medieval period, were altered in the 17th century, and restored in the mid-20th century. The exterior is roughcast over random rubble with a thatched roof and brick stacks on the left gable end and to the right of the cross passage.

The layout of Honeysuckle Cottage (No 58) consists of three cells and a cross passage, with a stair turret opening out of the hall that runs north-south. The building is one and a half storeys high with three bays. The first floor features two-light eyebrow dormers, while the ground floor has a four-light leaded iron casement window to the left of a plank door, and three and two-light casements to the right. There are date stones below the left dormer, one inscribed "I H 1607" and the other to the right inscribed "I M March 21st 1677".

The left return of the building faces the road and has a hipped left gable end. This section is two storeys high and has three bays, with two-light casements on the first floor and four on the ground floor, along with a central plank door featuring decorative hinges. A three-light ovolo-moulded mullioned window is said to survive in the stair turret on the rear elevation.

Although the interior has not been viewed, it is reported that Honeysuckle Cottage contains unusually moulded beams, possibly reset, and faint remains of painted decoration on the hall side of a timber-framed partition set on several courses of brickwork. This decoration is painted in red, yellow, and black, with discernible patterns of guilloche, small stars, flowers, and animals. The roof features a smoke-blackened jointed cruck truss, which is also present in Wibble Cottage (No 60).