Little Timbers

Little Timbers is a house that dates back to the late medieval period and has been altered in the 20th century. It features a timber frame that is partly plastered with imitation framing, partly covered in weatherboarding, and partly shingled. The roof is covered with interlocking concrete pantiles. The house has a two-bay hall range facing south with an axial stack near the left end. To the right, there is a two-bay crosswing that projects forward from the hall range and has an internal stack at the junction. There is a small extension from the 18th or 19th century to the left and a large single-storey extension added to the rear in the 20th century. A large porch from the 20th century is located on the right return wall. The building is one storey high with attics and features three 20th-century casement windows, along with two additional casements in flat-roofed dormers. The roof has a shallow pitch and extends over the 20th-century rear range. The left stack has grouped diagonal shafts.

The external appearance can be misleading, as the jetty of the crosswing has been underbuilt, and the roof and upper part of the building were altered after a thatch fire around 1953 to create a continuous range. Inside, the crosswing has a chamfered binding beam with broach stops and plain joists of horizontal section. The hall range exhibits close studding with fixing pegs for a former bench against the right wall, and it features a late 16th-century inserted floor with a deeply chamfered axial beam and chamfered joists, all with lamb's tongue stops. The beam ends just short of an early 17th-century stack, which is supported on a corbel, suggesting there was an earlier timber-framed chimney. The left side and back of the hearth have been partly rebricked, and the short bay to the left of the stack has thin longitudinal joists. Most of the upper storey is plastered internally.