Kirby House

Kirby House is a house dating from the 17th century, encased in late 18th to 19th century materials, with a contemporary wing to the left and later 19th century outshuts at the rear. The building underwent re-thatching and internal alterations in the 20th century. It features a timber frame encased in brick, with additional brickwork and a whitewashed finish throughout. The main range has a thatched roof, with Welsh slates at the angle with the wing and pantiles on the wing and outshuts.

The house is L-shaped in plan, comprising a main three-room range with three main bays of timber frame, likely with intermediate wall-posts, and stairs beside the stack to the left. There is a two-room wing at the front left and rear outshuts to both the main range and the wing. The main range is a single storey with an attic and has three windows. A 20th century door is located to the right of centre beneath a projecting porch with a hipped thatched roof supported by two timber posts. The windows include three-light sliding sashes with glazing bars on either side and a 12-pane sliding sash to the left. A central dormer features a weatherboarded gable over a three-light sliding sash. The roof is half-hipped with ornate ridge capping, and there is an axial stack. Attic windows consist of three-light sliding sashes on the left and right returns, with padstones visible at the rear right angle.

The low two-storey wing to the left has a recessed panelled door and three 12-pane sliding sashes, all but one set under segmental arches. It also features a central first-floor ventilation hatch, a stepped and dentilled brick eaves cornice, and brick coped and tumbled gables, with an end stack on the right. The left gable end has 19th to 20th century brick steps leading to the original first-floor board door. Inside, wall plates, tie-beams, and some repaired wall posts are visible, with the first floor supported on chamfered spine beams and side-rails carried on brackets nailed to the wall posts.