historic building recording This modest early C19 cottage has remained remarkably intact with few additions; two new windows, a fashionable 1930s Art-Deco fireplace, and a doorway connecting the adjacent outhouse. Except the front door all the original board and rail doors survive together with their furnishings and the ubiquitous brown paint throughout on the woodwork suggests that it may always have been that colour. The gas cooker looks quite incongruous in its setting and surprisingly there appeared to be no evidence for electricity. The design is like a timber-framed cottage from two centuries earlier, and many of these buildings retained their internal frames when the walls had been infilled or rebuilt in brick after the later C17. Indeed, the few feet of waney edge on the chamfered beam in the parlour continues an old tradition of using local trees, before sawn lumber became common. The railway station was only opened in 1908 and shows how remote this area was during the rapid industrial progress of the later C19.
Cook et al. (Wed,) studied this question.