Old Edge

Old Edge is a house with significant remains of an early 16th-century timber-framed open hall, encased in stone during the early 17th century. It was restored with some rebuilding around 1975. The house is constructed of large dressed stone with a stone slate roof, and features a 3-room through-passage plan with a rear kitchen wing.

The architectural style is characterized by double-chamfered mullioned windows on the ground floor, unified by a continuous hoodmould. First-floor windows are single-chamfered. Notable window groupings include a 5-light window, a long hall window of 6 and 5 lights, and first-floor windows each with 3 lights. A 2-storey gabled porch, dated 1676, has kneelers, coping, and a crocketed finial. The broad doorway is inscribed with "PEACE BE WITHIN THY GATE," and is topped by a hoodmould, cyma moulded surround, and a double-chamfered, stepped window of 3 lights. Other windows include a 6-light window to the service end with a 4-light window above. Return walls feature 6- and 4-light windows.

The rear of the house includes a 3-light window with a straight lintel and chamfered surround, and a gabled stack. The east face has a 3-light chamfered mullioned window with a matching window above. Two stacks are present on the ridge, one backing onto the through passage.

Inside, a Tudor arched doorway leads from the through passage into the service end. The service room features a segmental arched fireplace with a moulded shelf. The hall is open to the roof and displays rich early 16th-century woodwork. The hall’s trusses, particularly a central king-post truss with angle struts braced to a diamond set ridge, show evidence of earlier timbers and features, including mortices for former posts and braces. The east truss of the hall includes a jowelled head on the king post, and surviving plank and muntin panelling with triple-reeded edges. A prominent 17th-century fireplace was inserted in the hall, featuring a broad segmental arch carried on skewbacks with a cyma moulded surround and a projecting shelf. A king-post roof truss with eight “V” struts supports the roof of the rear wing, which has its own fireplace with a segmental arched lintel on corbelled jambs to each floor. A small room, accessed through a doorway with an ogee lintel, is located behind the parlour.