Garretts

Garretts is a house dating to circa 1600, featuring restoration work from the 20th century. It is constructed with a timber frame, rendered with plaster, and has a roof of handmade red clay tiles. The house originally comprised four bays facing southwest, with an axial stack in the second bay from the left, creating a lobby-entrance. There are 20th-century single-storey extensions on the left end and to the rear of the left end. The house is two storeys high with attics. It has a three-window facade of 18th-century, three-light casements, some of which are replacements or reproductions. A 20th-century gabled porch shelters a plain boarded door. Four octagonal shafts, with moulded bases, have been rebuilt at the top.

The interior retains several original features, including jowled posts, exposed studding with straight braces trenched to the inside, and chamfered axial beams with lamb's tongue stops, along with plain joists of horizontal section. The ground floor has two large wood-burning hearths; the mantel beams are chamfered with lamb's tongue stops. On the first floor, two original hearths remain, each with a depressed arch of plastered brick, one chamfered, the other moulded. An original framed staircase leads to the attic, featuring splat balusters. The house contains a noteworthy collection of interior doors - some original, others introduced but appropriate to the period, along with original door furniture. All windows are accurately restored, with some genuine windows of the correct period introduced from elsewhere. The roof is a butt-purlin design with straight wind-braces.