24, High Street, Puckeridge

The building at 24 High Street, Puckeridge, is an inn, now a house, with origins dating back to the 16th century or earlier, and a mid-19th century Gothic facade. The construction is timber frame with roughcast, with a south gable featuring panelled fan pargetting. The front is red brick with diaper and chamfered white brick dressings and a plinth, and includes a half-timbered, jettied section on the right. The roof is covered in steep old red tiles.

The building likely began as a large open-hall house, later incorporating a two-storey gabled crosswing to the north, a square rear kitchen block to the southwest, and a gabled stair turret in the angle between. A high carriageway exists on the north side, with a room above, and is separately roofed. A mock half-timbered, jettied gable was added to the street front in the 19th century, mirroring the original jettied timbered gable of the crosswing.

The east-facing street front is a picturesque, irregular two storeys and a cellar. A three-window section on the left corresponds to the former hall, with a heavy Tudor-style door located up two steps to the right of a two-storey, rectangular, gabled bay window. Further to the right is a single window. A higher-set window is visible in the brick lower floor fronting the crosswing, and the jettied upper floor features a flush cross-window and a heavily moulded bargeboard to the red brick, nogged, timber-framed gable. The original timbers have heavy bull-nosed joist ends, although lighter joists were used during the construction of the 19th-century gable. A wide-span, clasped-purlin roof has replaced the original, incorporating a long, curved, soot-blackened timber. The kitchen has a clasped-purlin roof with a large gable chimney. A central chimney is located in the hall, closer to the north end. An original framework of the rear wall, featuring a heavy, diamond-shaped, mullioned two-light window, has been preserved within the structure. A moulded timber corbel supports an axial beam in the hall. It was formerly known as The Old George Inn.