The Olive Branch

This is a house, likely dating to the 16th century, that was later used as a beer house between 1840 and 1971 and subsequently enlarged to the rear in two stages since 1971. It is timber-framed with black stuccoed sills, roughcast walls, and exposed timbers on the first-floor front, where the infill panels are plastered. The building has steep roofs covered in old red tiles.

The building is prominent, with a two-storey, two-cell plan facing north onto the roadside. The jettied, close-studded upper front floor is supported by heavy bull-nosed joists and four curved knee-braces. A door is centrally located beneath the jettied upper floor, flanked by two small, flush, two-light casement windows with external boarded shutters on the ground floor. The first floor has two small, 19th-century, two-light casement windows with small panes, positioned within the original window framing. A large external west-facing gable chimney is constructed of narrow red brick, featuring offsets and two diagonally set square shafts with corbelled caps.

The house has a trapezoidal plan, set at an acute angle to the road. The interior comprises two rooms on each floor, along with a two-storey parallel rear wing and a gabled rear extension. A porch is situated on the east end of the rear extension.