The Old Place

The Old Place is a house dating from around 1600, with alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It features a timber frame, is plastered, and has a thatched roof. The building has four bays facing south and includes an axial stack located one bay from the right end. There is a one-bay extension to the left with an end stack, added in the 19th century, and a lean-to extension at the rear of the right end, which has both thatched and slated roofing. The house is one storey high with attics. There are four 20th-century casement windows, along with three additional casements in tiled gabled dormers, one of which is bracketed to overhang the front door, also from the 20th century.

Inside, the house features jowled posts and arched corner bracing that is trenched inside the studs. The axial and transverse beams are chamfered, and the plain joists have a horizontal section supported on pegged clamps, which are original, as are the rebated floorboards. The rear wallplate shows a face-halved and bladed scarf joint, and the roof has clasped purlins with arched wind-bracing. At the time of the survey in September 1984, the left extension was undergoing major repairs. There is a large wood-burning hearth facing to the left.