Waveney House

Waveney House is a house dating from the early 16th and early 17th centuries. It is now arranged as a two-cell lobby-entrance plan. The house has a timber-frame construction, now rendered and covered by a thatched roof. A plain, square chimney-stack rises from the centre, featuring a corbelled head. A gabled porch, with clay pantiles, fluted bargeboards, and a plank door with applied pilaster strips, has been added. There are two windows on each floor; these are old three-light casements with pintle hinges and a single horizontal bar to each light. The ground-floor windows are deeper than those above. Internally, the timber frame is exposed, displaying good studding and two ground-floor ceilings with chamfered joists and main beams with curved stepped stops. To the right of the chimney stack, the ceiling is unplastered, revealing the joists. There are open fireplaces, one with a plain, damaged timber lintel. The upper floor shows the frame divided into two sections, joined to form the present layout. To the right of the stack, there's a truss with bolted secondary base crucks replacing an intrusive tie-beam. To the left, the wallplate has been raised. Two original upper windows remain: a five-light window in the gable and a four-light window in the rear wall, both with a plain chamfer to the mullions.