Cumbers

Cumbers is a house dating from the 16th or 17th century. It has a timber frame that is rendered on the south and east sides, with a roof that features plain tiles and thatch, half-hipped at the north end. The building has one storey and an attic, consisting of three bays. There is a stack that divides the centre and north bays, and a single-storey outshut to the north with a lean-to roof, likely added in the 19th century.

The east and west elevations each have one gabled dormer. The north bay has a plank door, while the south bay features a segmental-arched window that has been rebuilt in a late 18th-century or early 19th-century style. The north return has a window with diamond mullions in the attic storey. The rafter ends in the north bay are of an early date, while the centre and south bays have been rebuilt.

The west elevation displays studding with trenched, curved braces in the centre and south bays, diagonal bracing in the north bay, and rectangular framing in the north return. The roof is of the clasped purlin type, with the collars and tie beam in the north return being lighter than those in the rest of the building.

Inside, the south and centre bays have a chamfered axial beam, and the bridging joists are of slight dimensions. The partitions are made of studded and braced framing, with peg holes visible in the posts of the partition wall facing the south bay. There is an inglenook fireplace at the back of the stock. The evidence regarding the building's construction is contradictory and difficult to interpret, but it is likely that the south and centre bays were built first, possibly without a floor, and that the stock and north bay were added later. The roof tie beams and collars in the south gable end and the south and centre bays are earlier than those in the north bay, suggesting a possible reroofing, though the exact sequence of additions is unclear. It has been proposed that the south and centre bays were originally open to the roof and were floored at a later date.