The Old House

The Old House is a house that was built in the late 16th century as an inn, with extensions added in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. A block was added to the front left around 1840. The earlier part of the building features a timber frame, which is exposed at the rear, with roughcast and bricknogging. It has a steep-pitched roof covered in plain tiles.

The house has a T-plan layout, with the cross bar of the T facing the road and a deeply jettied upper floor. The front has four- and three-light 18th and 19th century leaded casements on the ground and first floors. At the rear of the main range, there is a large late 17th century red brick chimney stack with a square base and four octagonal shafts set on stepped bases, featuring thin brick arrises between the shafts. A late 17th century stair turret projects from the center of the north side of the range, which has an original first floor casement band and below it, a 17th century mullioned and transomed leaded window. To the right of the stair turret, there is a late 16th century two-light mullioned casement on the ground floor. The front left extension is made of painted brick with a slate roof, featuring a rounded bay window on the left side and three recessed sash windows on each floor, including one 8/8-pane sash window above a replacement door.

Inside, the main range consists of four equal bays, with wide inglenooks on either side of the brick stack, both featuring roll-moulded bressumers. The door arches on the south side of the stack have four-centre heads with carved spandrels, and there are wide-plank doors from the 16th and 17th centuries. The hall was previously located on the west side of the stack. The upper floor rooms retain original door arches cut into the tie beams, which were part of a former connecting corridor between the rooms. There is one 16th century bay in the center of the south side, and a 17th century stack has been inserted in the gable end. Beyond this, there is a three-bay late 17th or early 18th century barn range with a queen post roof. The Old House is a well-preserved example of an early inn and was formerly known as the Bull Inn.