Sheepcote

This is a house dating from the 16th century or earlier. It is timber-framed and now rendered, with a red plain tiled roof and hipped sections with gablets. A central chimney stack is made of plastered red brick, and internally, diagonal shafts are visible below the ridge. The house has two storeys and attics. The first floor has five windows with small panes in vertically sliding sashes, together with two double and one single French door, and one stall-paned casement window on the ground floor. A circa 1925 gabled porch with a panelled door is centrally located. To the left is a later single-storey brew/bakehouse featuring a red brick chimney stack, a vertically boarded door, and a casement window.

The interior retains a double staggered side purlin roof with unusual solid braces pegged into principal rafters and short hammer beams, along with halved arches to some bays. Several four-panelled doors are present, alongside a newel staircase to the side of a fireplace. The house includes a back-to-back inglenook fireplace with a straight mantel beam, and a first-floor chamfered red brick fireplace with a segmental arch. Chamfered bridging and ceiling joists are also present, some of which have been renewed. Other features include jowled storey posts and halved bracing to the walls. Three blocked windows are visible, containing moulded mullions. A 17th-century brew/bakehouse incorporates a red brick fireplace with stop-chamfered mantel beam, a red tiled floor, and old pargetting visible on the east wall.