Bishop'S House

Bishop's House is a farmhouse, now a house, that dates from the early 17th century and features remodelling of an earlier building along with later additions and alterations. It is timber framed with red brick infill, some of which is in a herringbone pattern, and has a machine tile roof. The building has a T-plan layout, consisting of a main range with a three-unit baffle-entry plan and a shorter range at the rear. The main range has one storey and an attic, while the rear range has two storeys and a gable-lit attic.

The main range displays vertical posts with short straight tension braces and two surviving horizontal members, although the latter have mostly been replaced by later light rectangular panels, with six panels extending from the cill to the wall-plate. The left gable end has close studding that is mainly concealed by 19th-century brick cladding, which also extends to the front. The right gable end features a hewn jetty with a renewed bressumer, partly underbuilt in early 20th-century red brick. The back wall has closely set vertical posts to the right of the rear range, which also has closely set vertical posts on the ground floor and two square and rectangular panels with short straight braces above. The gable end has a hewn jetty with a chamfered bressumer that has straight-cut stops and a queen-strut truss.

On the main range, there are two 19th-century casements on the left, with the left one being segmental-headed, and one to the right of a 19th-century boarded door that has a gabled hood immediately to the right of centre. Above the casement to the left of the door is a raking eaves dormer. The ridge stack has three attached diagonal shafts and a toothed band at the base, which was rebuilt in late 20th-century brown brick, likely to the original form. An integral end stack to the left has also been rebuilt in late 20th-century brown brick, as has the integral end stack for the rear range. There are red brick lean-tos on the left gable end and to the left side of the rear range.

The interior was not accessible during the resurvey in February 1987, but it is expected to be of interest.