Timber Cottage (EHER 25590)

15th century and later timber-framed open hall house.

House of probably the 15th century and later. It is timber-framed with black weatherboarding and a gabled pantile roof with Suffolk verge detail. It has a central 19th century stack to forward of ridge line. The house front has 20th century small pane casements and a large flat roofed garage extension at the north end wraps across part of the front. Originally, it was a low open hall structure with jowled posts, cambered tie beams and external wall bracing, raised and extended in the 18th or 19th century. The braces are very low mounted and stud spacing very wide. <1> See: <2>