The Pyghtle

The Pyghtle is a house dating back to around 1800, built on the foundations of an earlier structure. The front facade is constructed of rendered flint with a decorative dentil cornice and covered with pantiles. The house has three bays over two storeys, with a 1½-storeyed extension to the right also built of flint and brick, and covered with pantiles and a gable parapet. Chimney shafts have been removed from both the left-hand gable stack and the extension stack. The front has sash windows with glazing bars and exposed window boxes on both floors. The doorway is positioned off-centre to the right, featuring a moulded doorcase and a six-panelled door. To the right of the extension is a horizontal sliding sash window with glazing bars.

At the rear, the elevation is of coursed flint with brick dressings, featuring flush sash windows with glazing bars set under segmental heads. There are two windows on the ground floor, one window to the first floor of the second bay, and 2-light casements to the first floor of the first and third bays. A leaded casement with pintle hinges is found in the west extension’s attic, alongside a gabled glazed porch dating from the 1920s, built with pantiles and a rendered base. A small casement window with glazing bars is located on the ground floor of the left-hand extension, and a late 20th-century raking dormer is visible in the attic.

Inside, there is a straight staircase with turned newel posts at both the top and bottom. Large stacks are located at the gable ends and at the gable end of the extension, and are enclosed.