25 Folly Road

This is a house dating from the 17th century, with extensions added in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is timber-framed, with a plaster finish and applied mock timbering. The roof is thatched, with gabled ends. The axial stack is brick, along with a rear lateral stack, the latter of which has been truncated.

The original house was planned with three rooms: a central hall heated by an axial stack, a parlour to the right with a rear lateral stack, and a small unheated room to the left. A partition between the hall and parlour was later removed. In the late 19th century, a single-story wing was added to the front of the parlour, and a small wing was built at the right end. A further addition was constructed in the 20th century behind the left end of the house.

The south east front is asymmetrical, with a single storey and attic. To the left are three small windows with two panes, each with a gabled and eyebrow dormer above. The projecting gable-ended wing on the right has similar windows, a plank door on its inner side, and a brick lateral stack on its outer, north east side. The rear elevation has tall ground floor windows, an eyebrow dormer, and a 20th-century addition on the right.

Inside, the hall features broad floor joists and a large brick fireplace with a chamfered timber lintel with cyma-notched stops. The parlour has a similar, smaller fireplace. The partition between the hall and parlour has been removed, and a beam supporting the hall-parlour is set on a post made from a chamfered beam with cyma-notched stops. Other visible features include exposed jowled storey posts, studs, sole-plates and wall plates. The roof structure shows clasped purlins above collars, common rafter couples, wind braces and a timber-frame partition between the hall and parlour chambers.