Orchard House

Orchard House is a house dating from the mid-16th century, with some 17th-century features and late 19th-century alterations. It has a timber-frame structure with painted brick infill, partly underbuilt in painted brick, and a tiled roof. The house consists of two framed bays aligned east to west, with a lateral rubble stack on the north wall. The garden front, facing east, is two storeys high and features a three-light casement window above a 19th-century bay window with a hipped tiled roof. Originally, both gable ends jettied, and the east gable has a heavily moulded bressummer. The framing was originally close-studded, which is still visible on the north wall, while the wall frames were altered in the 17th century to consist of four square panels high. The east gable displays close-studding below the collar, with V-struts in the apex and trenched purlins. Inside, the ground floor has exposed chamfered and stopped ceiling beams.