Jummar

Jummar is a house that dates back to the early 16th century or earlier, with alterations made in the 17th, 19th, and 20th centuries. It features a timber frame that is plastered and a thatched roof. The building has a two-bay hall that faces southeast, with an axial stack from around 1600 located in the right bay. Originally, there was a storeyed parlour or solar bay to the left. A second hearth, which is back to back with the first, was added in the 17th century, and the structure was extended to the right by two bays during the 17th and early 19th centuries, forming two cottages that were later combined. A single-storey extension was added to the rear of the right corner in the 20th century.

The house is one storey high with attics and features four 20th-century casements, along with two additional casements in eyebrow dormers. There is a plain boarded door, and the roof is half-hipped at both ends. Inside, the original building has jowled posts and heavy studding with curved braces that are trenched to the outside. The left bay, which was the parlour or solar, has a complete unglazed window with three diamond mullions on the upper floor, and below it, there is a shutter rebate and diamond mortices for another window that has been replaced by a modern one. Similar evidence of the former hall window can be seen in the front wallplate.

The original floor in the left bay consists of lodged longitudinal joists of horizontal section, while the hall has an inserted floor of thin joists on pegged clamps. There is an incomplete bread oven located behind the stack. The roof was originally constructed with collar rafters and is smoke-blackened in the hall, but it has since been rebuilt using clasped purlin construction. In the right bay, there is a face-halved and bladed scarf in the rear wallplate, primary straight bracing, unjowled posts, and a chamfered axial beam with thin joists. Some internal tiebeams have been severed or removed.