Algars

Algars is a house dating from the 17th century, with extensions added in the 18th and 19th centuries. It features a timber frame, is weatherboarded, and has a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The house consists of four bays aligned approximately northwest to southeast, with an axial chimney stack located one bay from the southeast end, which creates a lobby entrance on the northeast side. There is an external chimney stack at the northwest end, along with an 18th-century extension made of painted brickwork beyond it. The southeast end is also faced with painted brickwork.

At the rear of the northwest end, there is a parallel range that is two stories high, constructed of painted brickwork and topped with a gabled roof made of red clay pantiles from the late 19th century. This range includes a single-storey lean-to extension at the southeast end. A large lean-to extension at the northwest end features an external chimney stack at the southwest end, built of brickwork and roofed with 20th-century corrugated red clay tiles. There is a bread oven to the north of the stack, and a single-storey lean-to extension in the western angle, made of brick and roofed with 20th-century interlocking red tiles.

The northeast elevation includes a five-panel door, with the top panel glazed, set in a wooden doorcase that has a pedimented head supported by consoles. There are two early 19th-century French windows with external louvred shutters and two 19th-century casement windows. On the first floor, there are three 19th-century casement windows and one reproduction window from the 20th century. The building features a wooden parapet with short modillions beneath the eaves and has a hipped roof.

At the northwest end, a painted brick wall of full two-storey height extends the facade to conceal the lean-to extension behind, maintaining the same parapet treatment and creating a long main elevation. The southeast gable of the rear range has late 19th-century carved bargeboards, similar in style to those at Elm Cottage in Debden Green.

Inside, the ground floor room to the northwest of the axial chimney stack has a restored axial beam and a staircase with two twist-turned balusters for each tread, dating from the late 19th century. This room is lined with pine panelling and features an 18th-century wooden fire surround and a semi-circular corner cupboard. There are cellars beneath this room and the northwest extension. The first-floor room at the southeast end has an early 19th-century arched ceiling with elliptical curvature and a clasped purlin roof.