The Linnetts

The Linnetts is a small hall house dating from the late 15th century to early 16th century, with alterations made in the 17th and 20th centuries. It is timber framed and plastered, with a thatched roof. The building has a two-bay hall that runs northwest to southeast, featuring an integral service end to the northwest and an integral storeyed parlour or solar to the southeast. There is a lean-to extension at the northwest end of the rear wall, dating from the 18th or 19th century, and another at the southeast end from the 20th century, along with a small extension to the northwest from the 20th century.

The structure is single storey with attics. The southwest elevation includes a 20th-century porch roofed with red clay Roman tiles, two 19th-century casement windows, and one 20th-century casement window. There are also two tiled gabled dormers with 19th-century casement windows. Some of the framing is exposed internally. The original floor at the southeast end features lodged joists of horizontal section, while inserted floors in the hall and northwest end have axial beams that are ovolo-moulded with lamb's tongue stops, and exposed joists on pegged clamps from the early 17th century.

An inserted brick chimney stack at the northwest end of the hall has two hearths of different builds back to back, dating from the late 16th and early 17th centuries, forming a lobby entrance. The building features jowled posts, with the central tiebeam missing and the other two internal tiebeams severed for inserted doorways. A wall painting on the northwest wall of the solar in red ochre on white depicts deer and the initials SM - MM - TM - RM, with cross-hatched bands above and below. There is a good late 16th-century door in the rear wall of the hall, made of moulded radially-cut planks on ledges, complete with the original Suffolk latch and pistol bolt. A bread oven has been partly demolished, and there is a medieval pine door, heavily nailed, on the 20th-century northwest extension. This building is noted for being an unusually unaltered small hall house with many early features.