Sheldrakes

Sheldrakes is a small hall house dating from the 15th century, with alterations made in the 16th and 17th centuries, and extensions added in the 20th century. The building is timber-framed and plastered, with a thatched roof. Originally, it comprised four bays, including a storeyed service bay at the northwest, and a two-bay open hall with a storeyed parlour or solar bay at the southeast. A chimney stack was inserted at the northwest end of the hall along with a floor in the late 16th century. An early 17th-century dormer was added to the southwest. There is a lean-to extension at the northwest end from the 19th century, and a single-storey extension with an attic to the north from the 20th century.

The ground floor features 20th-century casement windows, a 20th-century gabled brick and tiled porch, one 17th-century three-light window with a wrought-iron casement, and another window in the gabled dormer. The roof is half-hipped at both ends. The timber frame is exposed internally, with jowled storey posts and curved tension bracing trenched outside the studs. The construction includes interrupted tiebeams at both ends, with mortices for diamond mullions. The northeast wall retains the transom of the original unglazed hall window, which has mortices for diamond mullions above it and in the wallplate. The roof is of crownpost construction, although the central tiebeam, crownpost, and all the arch braces to the collar-purlin are missing. The first floor has 16th-century floorboards above the hall, and features stop-chamfered ceiling beams. There are four 17th-century wrought iron casement windows with early leaded glass, and a 20th-century dormer in the northeast pitch of the roof.