Hack House

Hack House is an early 17th-century farmhouse with later additions, featuring a brick nogged timber frame and a slate roof. The building has two storeys and three bays, with small framing and angle braces. A two-storey gabled timber framed porch jetties at the first floor level and projects by the width of three panels. Below the gable jetty, there is a four-light bowed, mullioned oriel, and shaped consoles support the first floor jetty. The porch has a heavy ovolo-moulded frame but no door; instead, there is a 20th-century boarded door in an ovolo moulded frame aligned with the front wall of the house. A five-light oriel sits below the eaves at first floor level, with a matching copy at ground floor level. The rear (west) side shows exposed timbers above a lean-to roof. An added wing to the south-west contains late 17th-century beams but is primarily brickwork now. The north gable end features timbers with angle braces above the first floor and a slightly jettied gable, which no longer has exposed timbers. Inside, there is an inglenook, exposed timbers in the walls, slight ovolo moulds on some beams, bevelled beams, and exposed ceiling joists. At the first floor level, wide boarded doors on strap hinges are present, along with exposed timbers in the walls and sections of trusses.