Queen Elizabeth House

Queen Elizabeth House is a timber-framed house, dating from the early to mid 16th century, with later additions and alterations. It has undergone comprehensive external repairs, including re-roofing in 1995. The house is timber-framed with painted rendered infill panels, some sections retaining wattle and daub. It has a plain clay tile roof with paired projecting gables over a gallery. Lead-lined timber gutters run along the roofline. The building has a rectangular plan consisting of two bays. A portion of the southern ground-floor bay originally served as a through walkway. A jettied gallery extends from the first floor of the west elevation.

The house is two storeys high with two first-floor windows. The timber framing is predominantly composed of square panels, four high to the wall plate, with close studding to the left ground floor of the west elevation. Tension braces are present, and infilled square panels form the gallery balustrade resting on a moulded bressumer. The left main gable features collar and queen posts, while the gallery gables have additional V-struts. The roof is constructed with double purlins clasped by a strutted collar. First-floor windows are four-light with diamond-leaded casements. Boarded doors are located to the left and right of the elevation, providing access to the gallery. A two-light leaded window is present on the left ground floor, alongside a boarded door centrally located, with an open walkway to the right. The left-return side features paired four-light, diamond-leaded windows on both floors.

The interior reveals exposed timber framing to the ground floor, including ceilings. Plain chamfers are visible on the bridging beams. A modern staircase leads to the gallery. Two rooms are located on the first floor, open to the underside of the roof, with exposed framing to the walls and ceilings and boarded doors.

Queen Elizabeth House was raised and relocated to its present position in 1891. Originally, it stood approximately 10 metres to the north, with the walkway crossing the eastern portion of The Trinity. While it is reputed that Queen Elizabeth I visited in 1575, this claim is unsubstantiated. A more likely connection involves an endowment to the Trinity hospital, school, and almshouses. The building was potentially the schoolmaster's house.