Timbers

Timbers is a house dating from the late 16th century, with alterations made in the 20th century. It features a timber frame, is plastered, and has a roof covered with handmade red clay tiles. The building has three bays facing southwest with a central stack, built around 1590, and was extended to the left by one bay shortly after. There is a two-bay rear extension from around 1600, which includes a 20th-century external stack at the end. A single-storey lean-to extension is located in the right rear angle. The house is two storeys high and has a four-window range of 20th-century casements, along with a 20th-century door in the lean-to porch. The front features a modern plaster inscription stating 'Circa 1575'.

The building has four linked octagonal shafts that have been shortened, with their upper parts rebuilt in the 20th century. The right return wall displays a jetty supported by an ovolo-moulded bressumer. Inside, there are jowled posts and some exposed studding with straight braces set into the interior. The house contains two large wood-burning hearths; the left hearth features a 17th-century cast iron fireback, while the right hearth has an early 17th-century depressed arch made of plastered brick with a 20th-century grate.

In the left extension, longitudinal joists of horizontal section are present. The two main ground floor rooms have chamfered transverse beams, one of which has lamb's tongue stops and plain joists of horizontal section. Both beams have been scarfed at a later date near the front wall, although the reason for this is unclear. Early 19th-century brick floors are found in all ground floor rooms, with some original floorboards remaining above. Both roofs are constructed with clasped purlins.

Photographs held by the owner reveal that there are two early glazed windows above the jetty, each with one mullion and two saddle bars, which are now plastered in on both sides. Additionally, beside the left ground floor hearth, there is a curved draught screen from the 17th century, featuring three D-section ledges of matched curvature and rebated boards, which is a rare and valuable survival, later raised to ceiling level.