Old Timbers

Old Timbers is a house that dates back to the 16th century or earlier, with alterations made in the 20th century. It features a timber frame that is plastered and has a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The building has a two-bay hall that faces southeast, with an inserted stack in the left bay against the rear wall, and a parlour or solar bay to the right. To the left, there is a two-bay crosswing dating from around 1570, which has an axial stack at the rear and has been extended by one bay. A single-storey crosswing was added to the right of the main range in 1982.

The hall range is one storey with attics, while the left crosswing has two storeys. The ground floor features four 20th-century casement windows, and the first floor has two more, including one in a gabled dormer. There is a 20th-century door at the front of a 20th-century porch. The hall range has undergone significant alterations, making its exact date unclear, but it is likely from the early 16th century. It includes jowled posts, heavy studding, and a blocked plain doorway leading from the hall to the parlour.

Inside, the hall has a late 16th-century inserted floor with a chamfered axial beam that has lamb's tongue stops, and plain joists of horizontal section supported on pegged clamps. The rafters are trenched for high collars, which may indicate a crownpost roof or a simple collar-rafter roof. Smoke-blackening is visible at the left end, near the current staircase. The left crosswing features jowled posts, an unglazed window with two diamond mullions on the right side, a chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops, chamfered joists with lamb's tongue stops, an edge-halved and bridled scarf in the left wallplate, and a clasped purlin roof with high collars and arched wind-bracing. These architectural details suggest a close dating of the left crosswing to between 1565 and 1580.