Pudds Orchard

Pudds Orchard is a house dating from the 16th or early 17th century. It features an exposed timber frame on the first floor with red brick infill, while the ground floor is cased or replaced in Flemish-bond red brick with some blue headers. The house has a steep old red tile roof and is two storeys high with an internal chimney plan, facing west. It likely originally had a central lobby entrance by the stack. The staircase, which was formerly in an outshut behind the stack, has been replaced in a 20th-century rear wing. The longer southern bay contains a hall on the ground floor and a main chamber above, both of which are heated. There are two windows on each floor, featuring 3-light flush lattice leaded casements, and a small original 3-light lattice leaded window on the first floor on the east side. The southern gable has been rebuilt in brick. The rear wing is a 20th-century addition. Inside, the house has a clasped purlin roof on jowled posts and a highly finished interior that includes chamfered axial floor beams with elaborate chevron stepped and notched stops, salt recesses, and a blocked bake oven in the chimney. The interior also features fishtail pattern iron door hinges and a shaped corbel bracket for a former oriel window on the west side of the main chamber.