The Old School House

The Old School House is a house dating back to the 15th century, with later extensions in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. It is timber-framed and plastered, with a roof mainly covered in handmade red plain tiles, and some red clay pantiles. The house is two storeys high, with a cellar, and originally had two bays facing northeast. A 17th-century external stack is located to the left, extended in the 18th or 19th century with an internal stack at the right end. A single-storey extension is visible to the right, with a 20th-century lean-to extension to the rear of the left end, and a garage on the left side.

The ground floor has one splayed bay of 20th-century sashes, extending forwards, and one 20th-century casement. The first floor has three 20th-century casements. An early 19th-century, flush six-panel door is set at the head of steps, accompanied by an iron handrail. The rear pitch of the right part of the roof is pantiled. There are three plain brackets under the jetty. The original part of the house on the left features a chamfered axial beam with run-out stops, joists plastered to the soffits, a studded partition to the right, and an original doorway with a chamfered double-ogee head. Next to this doorway are mortice holes for a draught screen and large peg-holes suggesting an attached bench. A further, inserted doorway with a four-centered head is also visible. This doorway originally led to the parlour of a larger house, but the remainder of that house has been demolished and replaced with the 18th or 19th-century structure.

A 17th-century wood-burning hearth is found at the left end, featuring a chamfered mantel beam with lamb's tongue stops, alongside some later brickwork. The roof contains jowled posts, a cambered tiebeam chamfered with plain stops, missing arched braces, a crownpost roof with a broken crownpost, and three axial braces. Modern rafters sit above the original rear rafters. C18 ripple-pattern pargetting on the right side of the roof partition indicates a period when it formed an external wall. The house was likely originally larger, extending further to the left. The exceptional height of the ceilings on both storeys indicates a house of high status. A cellar is located within the 18th or 19th-century extension.

From 1630, the house served as the schoolmaster's house for Aylett’s School. Records indicate that part of the structure was in ruinous condition in 1741 and was subsequently demolished shortly after.