Three Gables

House. Dating from the 15th century or earlier, the building began as an open-hall house with a contemporary storeyed, jettied west crosswing. In the early 17th century, a floor was inserted within the hall, and the eastern bay of the hall was demolished, with a new eastern gable chimney built in the 18th century. Further renovations occurred in the early 19th century, including the heightening of the hall range to two storeys, the construction of a central internal chimney within the crosswing, and rebuilding the jetty of the wing. The thatch roof was replaced with slate in the early 20th century, and a lower rear extension was added around the 1970s. The house is timber-framed with a brick sill and roughcast exterior, now with a steep-pitched slate roof; the rear extension has old red tile cladding.

The two-storey, T-plan house faces north, featuring a tall, narrow west crosswing and a one-and-a-half-storey rear extension. The north front has two windows on each floor and a door leading into the hall range beside the projecting gabled wing. The windows are flush casements with small panes, and the plank door has a moulded flat hood supported by shaped brackets. An exposed red brick plinth is visible where the wing’s jetty was rebuilt.

Inside, the exposed timber frame is evident. The crosswing is planned with two and a half bays, containing one large room on each floor, and a stair in a half-bay at the rear, preserving an original doorway on the first floor. The roof is a crown-post construction, exhibiting thin plank-like two-way bracing from the square crown-post to the collar-purlin (with an edge-halved bladed scarf joint). The ground floor has heavy flat floor joints with jowled posts supporting the jetty-beam. The eastern gable wall of the hall retains an open truss, complete with chamfered arch-braces to a cambered tie-beam, a rebated crown-post originally with four-way bracing, and a collar-couple. Paired convex curved tension braces are present at the front wall. Evidence suggests a former six-light diamond mullioned hall window originally extended to the front and rear of the building.