Jacques

Jacques is a hall house dating from around 1490, with flooring added in the mid-17th century and alterations made in the 18th century. It features a timber frame with lath and plaster infill and a thatched roof. The building has two storeys on a brick plinth, plus an attic. The entrance door is located to the right of the centre, set in a plain timber case, and leads to a 6-light timber mullioned window in the hall. The hollow chamfered mullions rise to the wall plate, with each light having a round head under a square frame. To the left of the door are two 3-light 18th-century leaded casements, while a similar unleaded window is situated to the right. The first floor has two 18th-century casements and one 20th-century window. The roof is gabled, featuring a 17th-century inserted ridge stack to the right of centre and an 18th-century external stack on the north gable. Both the north and south gables have drip shelves. The rear of the house includes a flat-topped 19th-century outshut to the left of the door, with two 18th-century leaded casements on the ground floor and four additional leaded casements above, arranged in two or three lights.

Inside, there is a 15th-century screen truss with two openings to the north of the dining room, one leading into the dining room and the other into an inserted passage. The original door at the west of the passage has been blocked. The service rooms to the north of the screen were converted into a lounge after reconstruction in the 18th century. The dining room, located in the lower part of the hall, was floored in the mid-17th century using a bridging beam with sunk quadrant mouldings and tongue stops. The room below the solar was converted into a kitchen when the central stack was inserted. The roof of the hall remains intact, featuring a single central spanning arched tie beam on arched braces that drop to demi-hexagonal responds with crenellated capitals on the principal studs. There is one square-section crown post supported by four arched braces on engaged fillets, which in turn supports the collar and crown purlin. The crown purlin continues to a plain crown post with one arched brace on the north side, supported by the brickwork of the stack to the south. The rafters and collars are also intact and show signs of smoke blackening from the open hearth. The first-floor solar to the south is close studded with a middle rail.