Bear House

Bear House is a house, formerly a farmhouse, dating from the late 15th century. It features a hall house design with cross wings and was altered in the late 17th and 18th centuries to create a continuous range. The building underwent restoration in the 19th and 20th centuries. It has a timber frame with plastered walls and a plain tile roof, standing two storeys high with four and a half bays.

There are four windows: two on the right are 19th-century sashes, while the two on the left are glazing bar casements. To the right of the door is a three-light diamond mullioned window from the 16th century. The door is located in its original position at the cross passage and features a wide 15th-century pointed arch frame with plain wooden spandrels. To the left of the door, the former service wing has an unusual quatrefoiled wooden ventilator band between the floors. The left return wall has a blocked four-light diamond mullioned window.

Internally, the hall consists of two bays to the right of the door and was heightened to two storeys in the late 17th century when a lateral stack was added at the rear. The bay to the right, which has 19th-century sashes, is an early 16th-century cross-wing addition. Adjacent to this is a late 17th or 18th-century half-bay addition. The left ground floor is divided into two rooms, featuring a pair of ogee-headed doors, and there are fragmentary remains of an early 17th-century wall painting.