Caldecott

Caldecott is a house located on Alphamstone Moat Lane, dating back to the 15th century, with extensions added in the 17th, 19th, and 20th centuries. The building is timber framed and plastered, topped with handmade red clay tiles. It features a two-bay hall oriented north-south, which includes a late 16th-century axial chimney stack in the southern bay and a storeyed parlour or solar bay to the north, with an external chimney stack beyond. There is a 17th-century extension of one bay to the south, also with an external chimney stack. The house has a small 18th or 19th-century extension at the rear of the main stack, which has an end stack. A later extension to the south is made of painted brick, enclosing the end stack and extending to the east, built around 1920. The house is one storey with attics.

The windows on the left side are 20th-century wooden casements, while those on the right side are 19th-century cast iron casements, which were installed in the 20th century. There is a glazed porch with a tiled gabled roof and a side door, also from the 20th century. Inside, the house features jowled posts and heavy studding. The original floor in the northern bay is intact, made of lodged plain joists with a blocked framed stair trap. The inserted floor in the northern bay of the hall has axial and transverse beams and joists that are all chamfered with step stops, dating to around 1560. The eastern hall window retains one and a half diamond mullions, while there is a complete unglazed window with three diamond mullions in the eastern wall of the solar bay. The central tiebeam of the hall features one deep arched brace, and there is a chamfered crownpost with axial bracing, along with original rafters and collars that are heavily smoke-blackened. There are indications of a former timber-framed chimney in the position of the current main stack.