Shettles

Shettles is a former farmhouse that dates back to the 15th century, with extensions added around 1600 and later. The building features a timber frame, which is partly rendered and partly exposed, with colourwashed brick and pantiled roofs. The 15th-century section has been underbuilt and extended by a taller block from around 1600, which was further extended by a lower block in the 18th or early 19th century.

The farmhouse has two storeys with an attic in the middle section and a cellar in the southern section. The southern part has irregular modern windows and a 17th or 18th-century external stack on the eastern face. The middle section includes a blocked doorway at the junction and features a restored five-light hollow-chamfered mullion and transom window in its original first-floor opening. The ground floor has a similar opening reduced to a modern three-light window, and there are two original two-light hollow-chamfered mullion windows opposite the stack. The rear facade originally had similar fenestration, with surviving stack windows, a modern three-light ground floor window, and two 19th-century casement windows at the first floor.

Architectural details include shaped eaves sprockets, a gable-end stack with three angled interconnecting shafts, and moulded brick gable corbels. There are also two small gable windows with chamfered reveals. The northern section features three 19th-century casement windows at the first floor, a cast iron two-light casement with small panes, a modern three-light window at ground floor, and a modern front door with a gabled porch. The building has a dentil cornice, a gable-end stack, and later lean-tos at the rear.

Inside, the southern section was formerly an open hall that has been floored and likely shortened when the middle section was added. It retains a surviving cambered and arch-braced tie beam with a moulded octagonal crown post in the roof space. The middle section has been extensively restored but still features an original four-bay clasped purlin roof with wind bracing. The northern section contains three re-used roll-moulded 16th-century bridging joists.