Gaytons

Gaytons is a house dating from the mid to late 16th century. It is timber-framed and rendered, with exposed framing on the front and a gabled roof covered in clay pantiles. The building has two storeys, with a lower two-storey extension on the eastern side. The main block features a central gault brick ridge stack.

The front elevation jetties out and is supported by four small exposed brackets. On the first floor, there are two three-light windows with leaded glazing, each featuring 'frieze' side lights with moulded mullions and leaded lights. The ground floor has a similar window arrangement and a central oak door beneath a shallow arched door head from the mid to late 16th century, flanked by 20th-century side lights.

On the western flank, there is a single-light cast-iron casement window on the first floor above a shallow gabled projecting bay window. The rear elevation includes 20th-century casement windows and a 20th-century open lean-to structure with a pantiled roof, supported by two reused 17th-century jowled posts, likely from a former cart shed. There are remnants of old pargetting and a date plaque inscribed with I.W.C above the initials J.F. 1901.

The eastern extension has a gabled clay pantile roof and a two-light Gothick 19th-century arched-headed window on the front elevation. The rear of this block has part of the roof eased out to accommodate a dormer. The house is a remarkably complete example of a two-bay plus stack bay, long-wall, jetty house with a baffle entry form. It features jowled posts, a side purlin roof, stop-chamfered spine beams, and arch bracing to each stack-framing tie-beam. Inside, there is an inglenook fireplace with a mantel beam. Each major bay has an extra central tie-beam, which is likely original, to support a now-removed attic floor. The front windows are mostly intact, with some replaced mullions and security bars, and the central part of each features three-light 17th-century or early casements with contemporary fittings.