Town Farmhouse Including Wall Enclosing Yard

House, dating from the late 14th century, with alterations in the 15th and later centuries. It is timber framed and plastered, with pegtile roofs. The house has a complex plan, essentially an ‘H’ shape, with a long service wing behind the western wing returning at a right angle to the west. It is two storeys high with gabled roofs, a hipped end to the west end of the rear range. The front displays three jettied gables facing the street, with a short length of the hall eaves appearing at a lower level between two of the jettied gables. The eastern crosswing has two exposed jetty brackets framing a canted bay window with double-hung sash windows containing small panes. The adjacent jettied gable has a canted bay window with leaded lights. The entrance door, within the exposed remnant of the hall front, has a moulded architrave and, internally, an old wooden lock. The west crosswing has four large jetty brackets. Windows are generally rectangular leaded lights, with a mixture of 20th-century replacements and older iron casements. A small red brick stack rises through the front roof slope of the hall, and later stacks are against the east and west crosswing flanks. A high red brick wall, built in the early 19th century, extends from the north-west corner of the building along the frontage, enclosing a yard. Internally, high-quality framing is exposed, showing a parlour/solar crosswing at the east end and a two-bay hall, all of likely late 14th-century origin. This section includes unjowled posts, crown post roofs over the hall and crosswing with moulded capitals and bases, and framing for a large hall window. The parlour door head remains in situ. The top plate of the hall is moulded, as is the underside of the central tie beam. A large inglenook fireplace retains a roughly moulded mantle beam and pot crane. The “extra” jettied gable is a superimposed structure over the high end bay of the former hall. The service crosswing at the west end has remnants of service doors, timber of poorer quality, but a cross-quadrant crown post. This was originally two bays with a hipped, gabled rear roof, likely dating to the early 15th century, and is now linked to a rear kitchen block with a simpler crown post roof.