Littlebury

House, dating from around 1540 and earlier. The ground floor is constructed of brick, partly rendered, with a timber-framed and rendered or pebble-dashed first floor. The building is of two storeys with a T-shaped plan, comprising a hall and a crosswing, with gabled roofs of peg tiles.

The front elevation, which is actually the north flank of the crosswing, is symmetrical. It features three small-pane double-hung sash windows positioned above canted double-hung sash bays, and a central early 19th-century door surround. This door surround has a heavy Grecian cornice, a rectangular fanlight with a cross pattern of glazing bars, and the original six-panel door. A substantial 17th-century red brick stack stands against the east wall of the crosswing, though it has been rebuilt towards its top.

The ground floor of the hall range has thick brick walls laid in English bond and an original moulded timber front door surround. The rear elevation features an original hall window with timber moulded mullions and transoms containing 24 plain glazed lights; the upper lights retain their central iron diamond bars. Towards the crosswing is a similar window of eight lights and the remains of the former rear door. All openings on this side have original moulded brick drip mouldings, and the junction between the ground floor and timber-framed first floor is bridged by a moulded brick coping.

Internally, the eastern half of the crosswing is of late medieval date and represents the service wing of an earlier house on the site. The two-storey hall range has a traditional layout with a former cross passage against the surviving wing. One elaborately moulded service door opening survives, featuring double stepped stops. At the high end is a similar doorcase that formerly led to a parlour of a long-demolished southern crosswing. The first floor is divided into two chambers, one against the crosswing that probably contained the original stairs. A narrower moulded door surround in the south wall presumably led to a former solar.

The timber framing of the upper floor is of high quality, with a pegged mid wall rail and thick arch bracing. The floor between the hall and upper chamber is original and has excessively deep narrow floor joists with central tenons and diminished haunches above and below. The original roof survives only as a single truss, featuring side purlins, queen posts, and concave-profile windbracing. The attic floor is also original, employing a simplified version of the same floor joist joints. A 17th-century iron casement window on the first floor east side has cockspur fittings and displays a stained glass crest of the Rivers family.