The Blue House

The Blue House is a 17th-century lobby-entrance house that was extended in the 19th century. It features a timber frame with plaster and is roofed with handmade red clay tiles. The building has four bays that are aligned approximately northeast to southwest, with an axial chimney stack located in the second bay from the northeast end, creating a lobby-entrance on the northwest side.

There is a two-storey lean-to rear extension for the stair on the southeast side, which may be original or an early alteration, resembling New England 'salt-box' houses. A weatherboarded extension on the southwest side is a single storey with attics and dates from the 19th century.

On the northwest elevation, the ground floor includes a tiled gabled porch and two 20th-century casement windows. The first floor has three 20th-century casement windows. The roof is hipped only at the northeast end. The chimney shafts are grouped diagonally and have been reduced in height.

Inside, there are chamfered axial beams above the ground floor rooms on either side of the chimney stack, featuring lamb's tongue stops on the southwest side and being unstopped on the northeast side. The hearth has been reduced for a coal-burning grate, with alterations made to the southwest hearth, including an inserted mantel beam made from reused timber and renewed brickwork above. The butt-purlin roof incorporates some smoke-blackened medieval rafters. The attic has been lathed and plastered to the rafters, possibly for storage, but was later stripped.