The Old House

The Old House is a house dating from the 16th century, altered in the late 18th century and with 19th-century additions to the rear. It is timber-framed and has been roughcast rendered. The roof is hipped and covered in plain tiles, with gablets. The house features a central, square ridge stack and an end stack. Originally, the building consisted of a main range of four timber-framed bays to the east and a cross wing of three bays to the west, with the western wing being refronted in the late 18th century. The upper floor has four flush-framed, twelve-paned sash windows. Two similar windows frame a half-glazed panelled front door, which sits within a shouldered architraved doorcase with a shallow hood supported by shaped brackets. A bay window with transomed casements sits to the left of the door. Inside, the house is largely from the 19th century, with exposed stop-chamfered ceiling beams with run-out stops. An inscribed stone slab is located in the grounds, close to the site where the remains of the Lagden family were reinterred on 25 June 1948 after a bomb had destroyed their original riverside graves.