Poynings

Poynings is a house, likely dating from the early 17th century, with a single-bay addition at the left and a rear extension. The house is timber-framed and rendered, with a plain tile roof and a red brick stack. It is one storey and attic, originally comprising three bays and probably following a central lobby entry plan with two cells. Windows are 20th-century casements, and a small oculus is visible against the stack, providing light to the staircase. Two flat-roofed dormers with 20th-century casements are situated on the roof. The roof sweeps and the stack is off-centre. A 20th-century porch sits on the left gable end. A single-storey rear wing extends from the main building, featuring a catslide roof. The interior reveals studded walls with thin down braces, a wall plate with face-halved scarf joints, chamfered cambered tie beams, and a clasped purlin roof. A rebuilt inglenook displays a chamfered bressumer, and the chamfered beams have tongue stops. On the first floor, a partition wall between the centre and left-end rooms was originally an external wall and preserves panels of pargeting.