Toad Hall (Including The Old Medicine Hall)

Toad Hall, which includes the Old Medicine House, is a cottage dating from the late 16th century, with a 20th-century link to a house from around 1600 that was relocated from Wrinehill in Staffordshire and re-erected here in 1972. Toad Hall features brickwork and brick nogged timber framing, previously thatched but now topped with a corrugated sheet roof. The building stands two storeys high with a loft and consists of four truss bays, with 17 small framing panels in length and four panels wide. At the rear (north), there is a central outshut that measures three panels long by two panels wide. The structure includes angle braces and middle rails that are continuous in the 16th-century style. The replaced casements are set within frame panels, and the front wall (south) and gable end have been rebuilt in brickwork. The gable features barge boards, and there are gable and central ridge stacks. Inside, there is a stone slab floor, wide boarded doors on strap hinges with wooden latches, and three steeply pitched upper crucks with base ties that create a sleeping loft. The interior also has chamfered purlins, wind braces, and old thatch rafters.

The Old Medicine House is timber framed with plastered panels and a tiled roof, standing two storeys tall with three bays. It has a rear one-bay wing (east) that completes a "T" shaped plan. The close studding is mostly replaced, featuring single middle rails on both the ground and first floors, along with angle braces and a sandstone plinth. There is a wide boarded replaced door in a Tudor arch-headed opening, and mullion windows with five or six narrow lights. The gables are cove-jettied with chevron infilling, and there is a large half-dormer, fixed off centre, on the west side, along with a low timber roof louvre. Inside, there is an axial firehood for a fireplace that heats two rooms, with a moulded beam on the north side. The interior also features ogee door heads, chamfered ceiling beams, and exposed joists. An internal window with diamond mullions is located in the wall common to the added late 17th-century one-bay east wing. The fireplace and door openings at first floor level have ovolo moulded surrounds, and the exposed ridge tree and purlins include wind braces. The brick and glass unit that links the two buildings is not of special interest.