Scotts

This is a mid-16th century house, altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is timber-framed, now plastered and with a thatched roof. The building comprises a three-bay main range facing north, with a 17th-century axial stack at the left end, and a three-bay cross-wing to the left extending to the rear. A 20th-century extension to the rear of the middle bay is also plastered and thatched. The main range and rear extension are single-storey, while the cross-wing is single-storey with attics.

The main range has four early 19th-century casement windows, each with an external boarded shutter and some handmade glass. A 20th-century door and similar casement are located immediately to the right of the main range, without a shutter. Other windows are 20th-century casements. The roof of the main range is hipped at the right end, while the cross-wing has a half-hipped rear roof.

The main range features jowled posts and heavy studding, with no visible bracing internally, suggesting it was trenched outside the studs. Both wallplates are splinted with forelock bolts in the right bay, likely covering scarfs, and an additional tie-beam has been inserted, indicating an early repair. A tie-beam to the left of this repaired section is grooved for former wattle and daub infill, with some empty mortises for studs. A blocked original Tudor-headed doorway is present in the rear wall at the left end of the left bay, with a rebated post to the left, suggesting this was once the position of a door. There's no evidence of a corresponding doorway opposite, which would have formed a cross-entry.

Inside, the right-hand stack features a large wood-burning hearth with 0.23-meter jambs facing to the right, a salt recess with a chevron head at the rear, and a chamfered mantel beam with mitred stops that do not align with the brick jambs, indicating possible reuse from a previous timber-framed chimney. The left-hand stack has a smaller wood-burning hearth facing to the right and an original plain mantel beam. A 6-pane early 19th-century borrowed light window is located in a partition within a room, and the opposite wall has some 17th-century oak panelling. The roof has a crownpost with curved down braces to the tie-beam at the left end of the middle bay, and a short stub of a former collar-purlin to the left of it. There are no braces below the tie-beam, nor mortices for them. The cross-wing has unjowled posts and lighter studding and wallplates.

Historically, the arrangement of the main range is untypical of 16th-century domestic buildings and it’s thought it may have originally served another purpose, later being converted to residential use by the 17th century. The building was formerly two cottages and is reputed to have been a school in the 19th century; a painting of the property, captioned 'The Old School House', is in the possession of the current owners.