Paynes Place

Paynes Place is a house dating from the late 15th century and 16th century, constructed with a timber frame and red herringbone brick infill. It features plain tile roofs, with a 19th-century ridge stack and a stack on the east side wall. The building is designed in a T plan with a crosswing at the east end and has two storeys. The close-studded timbers are visible throughout.

On the north front, the main range has three windows, including 5-light and 4-light casements on the first floor. The ground floor has a 5-light window, two 3-light windows set together, and a lean-to timbered porch that may have been rebuilt using older timbers. The crosswing features a 4-light window on each floor. The south front shows the crosswing jettied, supported by tension braces, and has a moulded tie-beam at the gable. The 19th-century carved bargeboards adorn the roof, with a 6-light window on the ground floor, a 4-light window on the first floor, and a 3-light window in the attic. The main range has two 5-light windows on the first floor and two 4-light windows on the ground floor, with a door situated between them. At the west end, there is a brick extension, likely from the early 18th century, featuring a coped gable and cambered arched windows in the gable end. The north front has been altered in the 19th century.

Inside, there is a carved moulded wood doorway leading to the crosswing, and in one ground floor room, part of a painted decorative text commemorates the marriage of A. and M. Stratford in 1577. In the main range, the upper floor contains the centre truss of a former open hall, with heavy moulded arch braces supporting the collar truss and decorative hollow moulded beams around the wall-plate level. The house is reputed to have been built in the 15th century for Thomas Payne, whose brass is located in the parish church, and it was visited by Queen Margaret after the battle of Tewkesbury.