Cockfosters

Cockfosters is a house that features a north crosswing from the 16th century, an early 17th-century hall range, and a low rear extension from the 19th century. It has a timber frame with dark weatherboarding, and the ground floor is cased in flint and red brick. The house has steep old red tile roofs and is designed in a small T-plan, standing two stories tall and facing east at the back of a small farmyard.

Inside, there is a very large internal chimney with back-to-back open fireplaces located at the junction of the two parts, along with a spacious lobby entrance beside the stack that has room for a winding stair. The front of the house has four windows, with a gabled north wing that does not project. The first floor features two-light casement windows, and the ground floor has a moulded brick capping to the flint casing, suggesting alterations were made in the late 17th or early 18th century. The entrance includes a half-glazed flush-beaded door flanked by three-light recessed casement windows.

The interior showcases an exposed frame with a two-bay north crosswing that has ogee stops on the chamfered beam, three arched recesses above the fireplace lintel, an axial ovolo moulded beam without stops, a squint-butted scarf joint, and heavy inclined queen-posts supporting the clasped-purlin roof. The hall range contains soot-blackened reused rafters, a clasped-purlin roof without wind-braces, an infilled cellar, and chamfered axial floor beams with ogee stops on both the ground and first floors, indicating that there may have originally been attics.