Smarts (EHER 38138)

Late 16th century timber-framed house.

Cottage of the late 16th century. It is timber-framed and plastered, with black weatherboarding up to window cill height. The house has a thatched roof hipping down to single storey extensions at each end. It is of one storey and attics, with two eyebrow dormers in the front elevation. There are two small stacks, one at each end of the ridge. The windows are 20th century casements. It is a former in-line open hall house with inserted floor and a late inglenook stack. There is internal wall bracing, some straight and some cranked, with a solar/parlour at east end and the former has blocked diamond mullion window over the tie beam. <1> See: <2>