Harp House

Harp House is a house that was later used as an inn, dating from the early to mid-16th century. It was refaced and had its eaves raised, likely in the late 18th century, and was extended in the mid to late 19th century. The building features a timber frame with herringbone brick nogging on the left side and is rendered on the right, with a painted limestone rubble plinth. The roof is covered with 19th-century slate and graded stone slate, including a catslide over an outshut at the rear right.

The structure likely began as an open hall with two framed bays on the right and a two-bay cross wing projecting to the left. It has one storey and an attic on the right, while the left side has two storeys and an attic. There is a brick ridge stack off-centre to the right and a lateral stack to the left of the cross wing at the rear. The framing includes square panels, close studding, decorative herringbone framing, vertical cable moulding, and corner braces.

On the hall range, there are two late-20th-century casements on the first floor to the left. The ground floor features a mid to late-19th-century painted brick and timber-framed square bay to the right, with horizontally sliding sashes on the right and a six-light window on the left. A late-20th-century boarded door is located to the left. The cross wing has a jettied first floor and gable-end with moulded bressumers and brackets. It includes a two-light late-20th-century attic casement in the gable-end and a ground floor late-19th-century twenty-pane glazing bar sash, along with evidence of a blocked first floor window beneath the gable jetty. The gable-end to the right has an exposed queen strut truss.

To the right of the house, there is a late-20th-century garage block. Inside, there is a central raised-cruck truss in the hall range and a close studded wall separating the hall range from the cross wing, which features wall paintings on the ground floor depicting a female figure and flowers. It is reputed that No. 26 was known as The Harp Inn in 1642, although it was likely a house before that time.