Gardners

House. Dating to the late 16th century, the property was renovated and extended in the mid-19th century. The house is timber-framed and has roughcast plaster, with steep roofs of old red tiles. A kitchen extension in white brick has a castellated appearance. The L-shaped house faces south, with a short hall range of one and a half storeys and a three-bay west crosswing. The crosswing is jettied at the front and features a large external brick chimney stack with a moulded base to two tall diagonal shafts. A smaller similar chimney stack with a rectangular cap sits at the east gable of the hall range. The main entrance is into a passage next to the crosswing. A two-storey timber-framed extension fills the rear angle. A rectangular, two-storey kitchen block projects from the rear of the crosswing and includes a castellated parapet, a crow-step gable, a chimney backing onto the crosswing, corner pilasters, and sash windows on each floor, with 8/8 panes. The white brickwork of the rear wall extends as a casing to the rear gable of the crosswing and the northeast infill. The asymmetrical south front features a gabled and jettied wing on the left, a door in the centre, and a gabled dormer to the first floor of the lower hall range. Decorative churchwarden Gothick bargeboards are present. The windows are 19th-century, 3-light, moulded mullioned casements. There is a blind cusped quatrefoil panel above a canted bay window under the jetty. The walls have heavy timbering with jowled posts, and the clasped-purlin collar roof has cambered tie-beams. The interior includes heavy, flat-set floor joists and a fine moulded 4-centred stone arch with wide, chamfered brick jambs to the fireplace in the west ground-floor room.