Mingers

This house, known as Mingers, dates back to the 15th century, with significant additions and alterations in the late 16th, mid-17th, and early 19th centuries. It is a timber-framed structure with a plastered ground floor, weatherboarded first floor, and attic. The roof is covered in old tiles. The house has two gables facing the road on the southeast elevation; the first floor is jettied on heavy beams. The southwest gable represents the original cross wing of a late medieval house. The central front door has a reeded and paterae surround, accompanied by a later, bracketed, tiled porch. A late 16th-century red brick chimney stack is located towards the northeast, alongside more recent, lean-to extensions. The rear of the southwest wing features a mid-17th-century chimney stack with three connected diagonal shafts. An early 19th-century brick brewhouse and bakehouse extension stands on the northeast side, built in English bond and with a single storey. A good amount of exposed timber framing is visible inside the main house. The northeast bay contains late 16th-century floor beams and a mid-17th-century, wide, oak staircase with simple, classical balusters. The rear wing has a chamfered oak lintel over the chimneybreast.