Sabina

Sabina is a house dating from the 15th or 16th century, constructed with a timber frame, weatherboarding, and rendering, topped with a peg-tiled roof. It is a small medieval house featuring three cells and four bays, with a two-bayed hall that has a cross entry, flanked by two-storeyed bays used for service and solar purposes. The exterior displays arched and tension bracing. The solar bay jetties out and shows signs of a two-light mullioned window beneath it. The jetty joists are flat laid, and there is evidence of a stair trap.

The hall was originally open to the roof, showing heavy sooting, and has a large rear window with a central king mullion, transom, and eight lights. The front window likely resembles this based on the spacing of the pegs. Inside, the hall is divided by a decorative tie-beam truss, with posts featuring deep internal fillets that extend onto deep arch braces. A cambered tie-beam supports a square-section crown post with deeply projecting fillets on each face. The cross entry doorways have medieval arched doorheads and joints, indicating an original spere or screen that separated the passage from the hall.

There are also a pair of service doorways with square, chamfered heads. The original service bay has been lost, leaving only mortices for the floor joists, which were centre tenoned. This bay was replaced in the 17th century with a new bay featuring a queen post roof, marked with Roman numerals on the members. In the late 17th or 18th century, the hall was divided horizontally, and a chimney stack was inserted at the central truss along with dormer windows added to the upper storey. A 20th-century extension has been added to the rear of the service bay, and there are 20th-century paned casement windows. This house is an important example of a small medieval hall house, with a jettied chamber and evidence of the original spere or screen.