The College

The College is a secular college that has been converted into a residence. It was founded and built in 1342 by Edmund Gonville and was restored around the 1850s by S.S. Teulon. The building is constructed of flint with stone quoins and dressings and is laid out in an L shape, although it was originally quadrangular. It has two storeys and an attic, with the north facade featuring 19th-century detailing.

The central porch is two storeys high and has a cusped and moulded doorway. The upper storey is made of ashlar and includes cusped windows beneath a steep spired roof. An external chimney on the left side originally served a two-storey hall, which has been rebuilt with a 19th-century stack. There are no ground floor windows below the string course, while the first floor features mullioned and cusped windows to the left and an elaborate five-light cusped window to the right, which extends through one and a half storeys. This window is arched with stone dressings and has a blank quatrefoil frieze at the sill, along with a broad reticulated transom above a stylised tree in a vertical panel. A tall eccentric gable separates the two 19th-century stacks.

The courtyard wall of the west range contains four 14th-century upper windows, one of which has two lights, while the others are single lights. Three original arched openings on the ground floor have been blocked with windows. The rear of the north range features an arched doorway opposite the entrance porch, indicating an original through passage plan. There are numerous 19th-century mullioned windows and a large bay window in the parlour, as well as one gabled dormer in each range.

Inside, there are remnants of doors leading to the service wing at the west end of the hall beyond the passage. The parlour is the lower portion of a two-storey open hall, with tie beams that have been relocated as ceiling beams, likely during alterations by the Earl of Surrey in the mid-16th century. The beams feature double ogee mouldings dating back to the building's foundation, and there is some 17th-century panelling in the rear room that is not in its original position. Remains of several 16th-century roof rafters can also be found. The College is significant in connection with the collegiate church to the north as one of the few remaining examples of its kind.