The Old House

The Old House is a cottage from the 18th century that is currently unoccupied. It has been partly refaced in the mid-to-late 19th century. The structure is timber framed with painted brick nogging, and the front and left-hand gable end have been refaced in rendered brick. It features a slate roof. The framing consists of square panels, with three panels extending from the sole plate to the wall plate, and long straight tension braces. The building has a baffle-entry plan with two framed bays, is one storey high with an attic, and has a central brick ridge stack located behind the ridge. There are two gabled eaves dormers, each with two-light wooden casements. The front has two windows, which are two-light 19th-century wooden casements, and a central 19th-century half-glazed door with a later gabled porch. The right-hand gable end includes a boarded door to the left and a collar and tie-beam truss with raking struts. At the rear, there is a brick and timber framed lean-to that contains a bread oven and an external lateral brick stack. Inside, there is a central dressed sandstone stack and a large open fireplace in the left-hand ground-floor room, featuring a chamfered wooden lintel. The right-hand ground-floor room has a bread oven, and there are cased ceiling beams and brick floors throughout. A winder staircase is located in the left-hand front corner. Despite the partial refacing, The Old House remains a complete and rare example of a late timber framed baffle-entry house.