Ari Jaba

A house, now divided into three cottages, dating from the 15th century with significant development around 1600. Further extensions and alterations occurred in the 17th, 18th, and early 19th centuries. The house is timber framed, with a mix of plastered and exposed frame and weatherboarding, and a roof of handmade red plain tiles.

The original design comprised a two-bay hall facing north, featuring a 19th-century chimney stack in the left bay and a catslide extension to the rear. A service bay is situated to the left, with a 17th-century rear stack and an additional extension projecting outwards to follow the property boundary. A two-bay parlour crosswing, dating from around 1600, sits to the right, accompanied by a rear stack and a 17th-century extension. More recent single-storey additions have been built to the rear of the left wing and hall range.

The front elevation has a symmetrical appearance with a four-window range of early 19th-century sash windows, each with 16 panes of crown glass. A 19th-century half-glazed door serves number 31, alongside two 20th-century replica doors, each with a single stone step. The upper portion of the hall's framing is exposed, displaying blocked three-light windows with moulded mullions and surrounds, and late 19th-century replacement trefoiled ogee tracery. Weatherboarding is evident on the right return (number 35). An 18th-century plaster eaves coving runs along the front and returns. The roof is hipped and continuous. The rear of the hall range (number 33) showcases a single 19th-century horizontal sash window with 12 lights.

Inside number 31, a chamfered axial beam is present, featuring step stops and mortices, originally indicative of a shop occupying the front bay. Other features include replaced joists, replaced studding in the left ground-floor wall, a large wood-burning hearth with a wide left jamb, and a blocked unglazed window with a shutter groove in the upper storey of the left wall. The hall range’s floor level has been raised approximately 1.20 metres to align with the crosswings. Exposed framing at both ends of the hall shows display bracing trenched into it; the pattern of smoke-blackening and weathering defines the line of the original roof. A central tiebeam has been cut for a doorway. The right crosswing contains a chamfered binding beam with lamb's tongue stops, plain vertically sectioned joists, and a cambered tiebeam with missing braces. A simple dogleg staircase with chamfered posts and handrails, likely from the early 18th century, is also present. On the first floor a single early 18th-century two-panel door can be found.