Frostnails

A house of late 16th century origin, with alterations made in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. The house is timber framed, with plaster rendering, some painted brickwork, and a roof of handmade red clay tiles and slate. The main three-bay range runs northeast to southwest, extended to the northeast by a single bay containing a brick end stack. Further one-bay extensions were added in the 17th century to the northwest and southeast, creating a cruciform layout. Single-storey extensions of varying dates and designs are present in each corner. The house has two storeys and a scattered arrangement of windows. A 19th-century door with half-glazing, featuring 16 lights, provides access. The original range exhibits jowled posts, close studding with curved tension braces trenched to the inside, chamfered binding beams with plain joists jointed using soffit tenons with diminished haunches, face-halved and bladed scarf joints in both wallplates, and a clasped purlin roof with curved wind-bracing. One tiebeam has been repositioned. The southeast extension features a chamfered axial beam with plain, vertically sectioned joists.