Pye Corner

Pye Corner is a house dating from around 1600, with extensions and alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It features a timber frame on a brick base and is rendered with a thatched roof. The building has three cells and is L-shaped in plan, with a short cross wing to the right. It was originally likely designed as a lobby entry and has two storeys. The entrance is located in a 20th-century lean-to projection at the center, which includes casement windows. The left bay has a ground floor French window and a first floor horizontal sliding sash window. An original multiform ridge stack is situated between the center and left bays. To the right of the entrance, there are two and three light casements. The cross wing projects to the right and features ground floor 20th-century two light casements, along with a steep gable that has exposed 19th-century plates and purlins. The right return displays an 18th or 19th-century external stack with offsets and a hip to the rear. The roof slopes down over an 18th or 19th-century lean-to outshut on the hipped left end, which includes a 20th-century canted bay window. At the rear left, there is a catslide roof over a weatherboarded lean-to outshut. The rear right has three and four light casements, a three light dormer, and an entrance. Inside, the house features exposed framing with close studding, an ogee stop-chamfered axial bearer, and posts.