Gobions

A house, originally dating back to the 14th century, with alterations in the 16th and 20th centuries. The house is timber framed and plastered, with exposed framing and a roof of handmade red clay tiles. It consists of a 3-bay hall facing southeast, with a 16th-century stack inserted into the northeast bay, and a 3-bay crosswing to the right. The structure follows the obtuse angle of the site, situated at the corner of High Street and Bell Lane, with all original structural members intersecting at this angle. There's an external stack at the left end and a 19th-century internal stack in the rear bay of the crosswing. A 2-storey lean-to extension from the early 19th century completes the parallelogram plan, alongside a 20th-century single-storey gabled extension and a 20th-century gabled porch to the rear. The house has two storeys and features three 20th-century 2-storey oriels with diamond-leaded casements. A plain boarded door is blocked internally. A hipped gablet is present at the right end of the main roof, along with grouped diagonal shafts on the main stack. Mortises in a post to the right of the left oriel indicate a former full-height oriel, slightly wider than the current one. The crosswing originally served as the service end and contains mutilated beams and plain joists with a horizontal section. A fragment of a plank and muntin screen remains, situated between the former screens passage and the hall. A cambered tiebeam displays a 16th-century biblical text in white lettering on a black ground, spanning the entire length but is damaged and difficult to read. The hall retains an incomplete ogee doorhead, now an external wall but formerly leading to the parlour. There is also curved saltire bracing and some original daub in the same end wall, along with triple display bracing in the rear wall of the hall. A 16th-century inserted floor features a moulded axial beam with spiral-leaf carving. The left internal truss of the hall exhibits non-functional hammerbeams, with carved male and female heads and arched braces to the tiebeam, incorporating spandrel-struts. Above ceiling level, all roof timbers are heavily smoke-blackened. The roof is of crownpost construction, complete with crownposts on both internal tiebeams, shaped to match the obtuse parallelogram of the building, each featuring two down braces to the tiebeam and four rising braces.