Fullerthorne And Railings And Gate To Front

This is a late medieval house, altered in the 18th century and extended in the 20th century. The house is timber-framed, with plaster and some red brick, and has a roof covered in handmade red plain tiles. The front of the house, facing southwest, consists of four sections. The original hall is represented by one and a half bays, with a late 16th-century stack inserted into the right bay. This bay originally included a "low end," but that part of the bay, along with the adjacent service bay, has been demolished. To the left of the hall is a parlour bay with an 18th-century stack at the end. An 18th-century one-bay extension joins the parlour bay, and a further one-bay extension, dating to around 1960, contains a garage and a bedroom above. A rear extension, also from around 1960, incorporates an 18th or 19th-century boundary wall made of red brick.

The front elevation has three replica sash windows on the ground floor, designed to resemble early 19th-century examples. The first floor has three replica casement windows, also with moulded surrounds. A half-glazed, four-panel door is positioned centrally, set within an eared doorcase topped with a pediment. A garage door is at the left end. The roof has a gambrel shape, with one 20th-century skylight near the left end. The left return side is painted brick, while the right return side has a lower section of red brick and an upper section of plaster. The rear elevation features some patterned plasterwork from the early 19th century.

Simple wrought iron spearhead railings and a gate run along the street boundary, except in front of the garage. Inside, a portion of one chamfered arched brace is exposed below the ceiling, and the remainder is visible from the loft. A cambered central tiebeam has been cut for the staircase, and the rear brace is missing. There is an edge-halved and bridled scarf in the rear wallplate. A large wood-burning hearth remains, featuring a moulded mantel beam, although it is defaced. A floor was inserted into the hall around 1600, featuring a chamfered axial beam (with a 20th-century scarf at the left end), plain joists of square section, and rebated hardwood boards. In the parlour bay, four posts are visible within the left wall, and the first floor has butt-edged hardwood floorboards arranged transversely, indicating that the concealed joists run longitudinally. The 18th-century extension includes a recess with a semi-elliptical arch on the rear wall, and the upper floor features pine floorboards and two 18th-century plain battened doors, one with a blocked opening. Much of the frame is plastered on the upper floor, exposing sections of the wallplates. Some smoke-blackened medieval timber was re-used in the 18th-century roof structure. The medieval features suggest a construction period of between 1380 and 1500. The alterations made around 1960, including all replacement windows, were designed by Peter Barefoot.