Applegates

Applegates is a house dating from around 1400 that was converted for use as a public building. It was extended in the 18th and 19th centuries and is now a residential property. The building is timber framed, plastered, and has a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. It features a two-bay hall aligned northeast-southwest, with a 17th-century axial chimney stack located in the northeast bay. To the southwest, there is an integral storeyed parlour or solar bay, and to the northeast, an integral storeyed service bay. A late 17th or early 18th-century two-bay extension is found to the northwest of the northeast bay, along with an additional 19th-century bay, creating an L-plan layout.

There is a two-storey extension to the southeast of the axial chimney stack from the 19th century, and an external chimney stack to the northwest of the southwest bay, which dates from the 18th or 19th century. The building has two storeys. The southwest elevation features a 20th-century door in a tiled gabled porch, with two 20th-century casement windows and one 20th-century double-hung sash window on each floor. Additionally, there is a 19th-century window in the gable of the facade, which is a dummy. The axial chimney stack has four octagonal shafts from the 16th or 17th century that have been reduced in height, while the southwest stack has two 19th-century octagonal shafts.

Inside, the building has jowled posts, heavy studding, and plain joists of horizontal section. The crownpost roof retains its original hips and gablets at both ends, located inside the later gables. One cross-quadrate crown-post is present, although the two side braces are missing. The collar-purlin and collars are intact and smoke-blackened. The wallplate scarfs are edge-halved and bridled. This building is illustrated in Muilman in 1770 as The School House. According to White's Directory from 1848, "The Free School for the poor boys occupies the site of an old tenement called Ford's, which had been long held by the parish for charitable uses, but was converted into a school and master's house in 1692."