Guinea Wiggs

Guinea Wiggs is a house built around 1615, which was extended and altered in 1987. It features a plastered and whitewashed timber frame with a thatched roof and follows a lobby-entrance plan. The building is one storey high with a dormer attic and has a four-window arrangement on the south front. The close-studded frame includes jowled corner studs set on a brick plinth. The south front has a doorway located to the left of the center, flanked by one two-light casement window on the left and three to the right. All windows and dormers were added in 1987, including a central dormer under eyebrow thatch. A ridge stack is positioned over the doorway. The five studs to the east of the elevation indicate the 1987 extension. The west side has a timber-framed lean-to outshut with a plain tiled roof, featuring one French window and one twin-light casement to the left, along with a two-light casement on the first floor. The gable head shows a cambered collar and protruding ends of clasped purlins set within undiminished principals. The north elevation includes two two-light casements and one single-light casement, along with a lean-to porch topped by two eyebrow dormers fitted with two-light casements.

Inside, the south door leads into a stack lobby with a winder staircase that backs onto the stack. The west room on the ground floor has a chamfered spine beam and a wide inglenook fireplace made of rebuilt brick under a chamfered bressumer. The main room east of the stack also features a chamfered bridging beam and an inglenook fireplace. There is a stick baluster staircase balcony on the first floor and an internal corridor on the south side. The roof consists of undiminished principals that clasp one tier of purlins with cambered collars.