Saxons

House. Built in the early 15th century or earlier, and the mid 16th century, with alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. The house is timber framed and plastered, with a roof of handmade red clay tiles. It faces northwest. A two-bay crosswing, dating from the early 15th century or earlier, is part of the remains of a hall house, the rest of which has been demolished. It has a 19th-century external stack at the rear. A two-bay range, dating from the mid 16th century, is positioned to the right, with a stack from around 1600 at the junction, forming a lobby entrance. A single-storey extension with a slate roof was added in the 19th century to the rear of the right end.

A single-storey lean-to extension to the rear of the middle part incorporates a gabled two-storey section, which may have originally been the stair tower, but is now largely 20th-century. The house is two storeys high, with a four-window range of 20th-century casements and a 20th-century front door. Both parts were originally jettied to the front, but have since been underbuilt. The roof is hipped and gabled at the right end.

In the crosswing, there are large plain joists of a horizontal section, jointed to the binding beam with unrefined central tenons, exposed in the front bay and plastered to the soffits in the rear bay. It also features jowled posts, a cambered tiebeam with arched braces, and a crownpost roof. The central tiebeam is square with four-way arched braces. The roof was originally gabled to the front, now altered to a hip but otherwise complete. The main range has a chamfered binding beam with step stops, chamfered bridging beams, and plain joists of a horizontal section, jointed with soffit tenons with diminished haunches. The upper storey has jowled posts, close studding, diamond mortices for an unglazed window at the right end, and a crownpost roof with thin axial braces. The stack has a chamfered mantel beam with lamb's tongue stops. According to the 1960 Schedule, the house was recorded by the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments as number 20, but the map on page 94 of the Royal Commission Inventory shows this to be incorrect.