Buck'S House

Buck's House is a house dating from around 1500, with alterations made around 1600 and in the 19th century. It is timber framed and faced with red brick in Flemish bond, topped with a roof made of handmade red clay tiles and slate. The building features a 2-bay hall range facing west and a 2-bay crosswing to the right. There is a one-bay rear extension to the crosswing from around 1600, which includes a 19th-century stack in the right wall. An early 19th-century two-storey extension at the rear completes an approximately square plan, featuring two stacks made of gault brick and a hipped roof with a shallow pitch covered in slate.

The house has two storeys and attics. On the ground floor, there are two late 19th-century splayed bays with sash windows arranged in a 2-4-2 light pattern. The first floor has four late 19th-century sash windows with four lights, set in early 19th-century openings with flat arches made of gauged brick. The attic gable includes a pair of similar windows. There is a 20th-century door and 19th-century pierced bargeboards. A granite bollard is located at the front right corner.

The rear gable end is weatherboarded and features a carved bressumer with seventeenth-century designs from around 1600. The rear wall of the early 19th-century extension is made of painted brick, and in the north wall, there is an original bow window with 36 lights and internal folding shutters, which is a rare feature.

Inside, the hall has exposed transverse and axial beams from a floor inserted in the 16th century, along with a small area of 17th-century pine panelling. The early 19th-century extension retains the original rear door, which is half-glazed in a parchemin design, and the original staircase with stick balusters. The crosswing features jowled posts. The 1600 rear extension has an original three-light window at first-floor level, with two ovolo mullions and one diamond saddle bar, although this is now blocked by the early 19th-century extension. The roof of the hall is of crownpost construction, with lightly smoke-blackened rafters, and the collar-purlin along with all but one of the collars is missing. The roof of the 1600 rear extension has cranked collars. The name "Buck's House" comes from the Buck family, whose headstones can be found in the Quaker burial ground at the rear.