Mabbutts

A house, originally a farmhouse, dating to the mid-16th century, with a late 17th-century addition and alterations. The house is timber-framed and partly plastered, with a hipped thatched roof. It features a tall, rectangular brick ridge stack and a red pantiled rear wing with an end stack. The original plan is three units, with a cross passage behind the stack. The main elevation has a continuous jetty across four bays, including the chimney bay, reminiscent of The Bell in Linton. The timber-frame is close-studded, retaining original window sills to first floor windows, including a small closet window. Exposed jetty joists are visible, marked by plain, curved brackets indicating each bay. A 19th-century four-panelled door is at the front, along with three ground-floor and three first-floor horizontal sliding sash windows, the right-hand windows being later insertions. The ground-floor plan is largely original, except for a removed wall to a service room and a blocked rear door with a four-centred arched head. Later inserted partitions on the first floor conceal a 16th-century boarded door with patterned iron strap hinges, and a late 17th-century bolection-moulded door. Original roll-moulded joists and cross beams remain. The main hearth features reddened bricks, possibly part of an original decorative scheme, along with a deeply moulded, re-used 15th-century mantel beam. A shutter groove and rebates suggest former window positions. A room to the left is plastered with a late 17th-century cornice. A bake house and brewhouse, altered in the 20th century, retain the original hearth and baking oven. The cross-passage has patterned plastered panels.