Walpole House

House. Dating from the 17th century, it was altered in the 18th and 19th centuries. The house is timber framed and plastered, with roofs covered in handmade red plain tiles and slate. The main range faces north, featuring two early 19th-century axial stacks. A 17th-century rear wing is located at the left end and an early 18th-century extension is situated beyond, with an axial stack positioned near the front. A further early 19th-century wing extends to the rear right, covered with a slate roof, while the other roofs are tiled. The house has two storeys, an unlit attic and a cellar. The ground floor has two early 19th-century sash windows with 10+10 lights each, including glazed margins. The first floor features three early 19th-century sash windows, each with 12 lights. A central door, with six fielded panels, is set within an early 19th-century plaster doorcase featuring plain pilasters and an entablature. There is a moulded eaves cornice. The stacks are built of gault brick. Inside the entrance hall is a pair of fluted pilasters supporting a semi-elliptical arch, dating from the early 19th century. Ground floor beams are boxed in. The rear right wing contains an early 19th-century quarter-turn staircase with turned newels, a mahogany handrail and stick balusters. On the upper storey, some of the timber frame is visible, showing unjowled posts and a substantial amount of re-used medieval timber. A simple splayed scarf with almost square abutments in each wallplate of the main range is a later addition. The roof is a clasped purlin roof with pegged apices and re-used rafters from a crownpost roof. The rear left wing has one joist inscribed 'R.B. 1716', and a gambrel roof with well-made bolted knees at the angles of the principal rafters.