The Wooden House

The Wooden House is a house that has been converted into offices, with a post office attached to the north. It features details from the 16th century, although much of the structure was altered in 1982. The building is constructed from flint and stone with a clunch rubble plinth, and it has a weather-boarded timber frame topped with a thatched roof. It is designed as a two-storey Wealden house, with a central two-storey open hall and advanced two-storey wings on the east and west sides.

The south front has a recessed hall that includes a ground floor three-light window and two first floor two-light windows, all of which were replaced in 1982. There is an off-centre door aligned with a screened passage. The eaves are jettied and supported by a single bracket. The west wing features a jettied first floor with one ground floor and one first floor two-light window, both of which were also replaced in 1982. The jetty is supported by 20th-century posts and a lintel.

On the north face, there are two ground floor casements with three diamond section wooden mullions, as well as one casement cross window, all replaced in 1982. The west side has a jetty supported by two brackets, with a dragon-beam at the south-west angles, and a single two-light casement on the first floor. The south wing has one ground floor cross window, replaced in 1982, with the jetty supported by a single 20th-century angle post. The east face has two casements, each featuring three diamond section mullions, with all external wooden details updated in 1982.

The steeply pitched thatched roof has an off-axis stack that was rebuilt in 1982. Inside, there is a two-storey open hall, but the former floor was removed in 1982. The central arch-braced tie beam shows evidence of a tower crown post roof. The west tie beams survive as an arched brace only at the south, while the east tie beam is an arched brace at the north, cut off by an inserted hall stack. This stack, largely rebuilt in 1982, has a chamfered stop bressumer on the west side and a crude stopped bressumer on the east with a right angle moulded transverse beam. There is also a two-storey brick range from the 19th century at the north-west and a single-storey addition at the north-east.