Hacketts

Hacketts is a house dating from the late 16th century or early 17th century, which was altered and extended around 1920 by W.H. Godfrey. It features a timber frame on a roughcast sill and roughcast walls. The 20th-century south wing and rear projection are dark weatherboarded on a painted brick sill, topped with steep old red tile roofs. This T-shaped house stands two storeys high with attics and is set back from the road, facing west.

The original three-bay, two-storey section includes the remains of an external rear lateral chimney on the north bay and a projecting south gable chimney on the south bay. The floor is made of squared oak joists supported by stop-chamfered axial beams. It appears that the floor structure was raised in the middle and south bays around 1920, during which a large oak staircase was added in the middle bay, along with a tall south wing, a jettied rear bathroom wing, and a single-storey lean-to on the north end.

The west front features a small gabled dormer on the roof slope, with a three-light window on each side of a two-light window above the entrance. There are six-light windows flanking the central plank door, which is sheltered by a gabled weatherboarded open porch. A two-light window in the north lean-to extension is sheltered by a tiled hood for the larder. The weatherboarded projecting gabled south crosswing has a four-light window on both the ground and first floors, as well as a two-light attic window. The windows are flush casement style with small panes, and there is an old plank door.

Inside, the house features exposed framing of the walls and floor structures, with jowled posts and straight tension braces in the partitions. The roof has a clasped-purlin design with collars and vertical queen struts for each truss. An ovolo-moulded window mullion has been reused in the attic floor structure of the middle bay. The south wing, designed by Godfrey, includes exposed joists and beams, oak plank doors, and turned balusters in a closed string dog-leg oak stair. There is also an old two-panel moulded door with T-hinges in the north room on the ground floor.