Ben Fosters

Ben Fosters is a house dating from around 1600, with alterations made in the 20th century. It is timber framed and plastered, topped with a thatched roof. The house has four bays facing southeast, featuring an axial stack in the second bay from the right that creates a lobby entrance. There is a 19th-century external stack at the left end and a 20th-century single-storey extension at the rear of the left end, which has a catslide roof. The building is one storey with attics and has a two-window range of 20th-century casements, with the upper windows set in eyebrow dormers. The front features a door within a 20th-century gabled porch that has a plain tiled roof. Inside, the house displays jowled posts with arched braces set into the exposed studs, along with a clasped purlin roof that includes curved wind braces. The axial beams are stop-chamfered with lamb's tongue stops, and there are exposed joists of vertical section supported on pegged clamps. A winder stair is located behind the stack.