Old House

This is an early 17th-century farmhouse, later converted into a house, with subsequent additions and alterations. The structure is timber-framed with painted brick infill, and a replacement timber frame to the front gable. The roof is slate, with a graded slope towards the rear. The building is in an L-shape, comprising a hall range of two and a half framed bays and a two-bay cross wing projecting to the left. It is one storey high with gable-lit attics. The timber framing is exposed to the front of the hall range and the rear gable of the cross wing, featuring square and rectangular panels extending from the cill to the wall-plate. A narrow, two-storey gabled porch is located to the far right of the hall range, incorporating jetties to the first floor and attic, and close studding to the first floor. Decorative 19th-century bargeboards and finials adorn the gables, including the porch. There are 20th-century casement windows on each floor to the gables, and one in the centre of the hall range. An original 17th-century plank door is situated in the porch, while a 19th-century boarded door is located in the angle between the hall range and the cross wing. A 19th-century red brick ridge stack, featuring two attached shafts with dentilled banding and capping, is positioned to the left of the hall range. 19th-century red brick lean-to extensions are present at the rear of the hall range and to the left side of the cross wing, the former incorporating a tall stack in one corner and the latter with a dentilled eaves cornice.

The interior features a deep-chamfered cross-beam ceiling and chamfered joists with straight-cut stops in the right-hand ground-floor room. Exposed wall posts are visible in the centre of the room. The large stack contains a partly infilled inglenook fireplace with stepped stops to the chamfered wooden lintel. The front room of the cross wing has a boxed-in cross-beam ceiling. The spine beam of this ceiling continues into the adjacent hall, indicating that the wall running parallel to the right return of the cross wing is a later partition. Timber framing is visible between the front and back rooms of the cross wing. Staircases are located in the back right corner of the right room and leading to the cross wing. The first floor has wide boarded oak floor boards. The cross wing has a single-purlin roof in two bays, with a roughly central collar and tie-beam truss. A doorway with a shaped arch cut through the tie beam leads to the back room. A similar roof to the hall range also features a shaped doorway cut through the tie beam of the first truss. The two end trusses have been removed, leaving the tops of the wall posts exposed. Short, straight wind braces reinforce the surviving trusses. A filled-in segmental-headed bread oven is incorporated in the rear lean-to. According to the owner's information from 1986, there was historically a gabled cross wing to the right of the hall range, in the position now occupied by the existing cross wing.