Hunter'S Roost

House. The origins of Hunter’s Roost date to the late 15th and early 16th centuries, with extensions added in the 20th century. It is a timber-framed building, largely plastered with some exposed timber framing, and has a roof of handmade red plain tiles. The house has a complex plan, featuring a main range of three bays running roughly north-south, a parallel range to the east of the northern part, a one-bay wing to the east of the southern part, and a 20th-century extension to the north. It has two storeys. All windows are 20th-century casements with rectangular leading, and the doors are also 20th-century replacements.

The main range showcases distinctive features including jowled posts and exceptionally heavy horizontal timbers (girts). A scarf joint in the western wallplate is edge-halved and bridled. In the north bay, there is a chamfered axial beam with joists plastered to the underside. Some of the studwork to the lower storey of the north wall has been removed. The axial stack in the centre of the north of the middle bay is likely 20th-century, though it may incorporate or replace an earlier 16th-century stack. South of this stack is a chamfered axial beam with step stops, and plain horizontal-sectioned joists attached with unrefined soffit tenons. The roof is of crownpost construction, with axial bracing, though the collar-purlin has been cut at the stack. A short crownpost is positioned on a collar at half-height between the middle and south bays; this is a rare feature also found at Rayne Hall and Round Hill House.

An 18th-century corner cupboard is situated in the southwest corner of the ground floor, featuring fluted pilasters, moulded and profiled shelves, a spheroid head, and a dentil cornice. The parallel range possesses a chamfered longitudinal beam and plain horizontal-sectioned joists attached with soffit tenons which have diminished haunches. The southeast wing is built of old timber, jointed and pegged, with a jetty to the east displaying exposed horizontal-sectioned joists, but is mostly of early 20th-century construction; the roof is of softwood.