Allens House

Allens House is a house that dates from the mid-16th century, with an extension from the early 17th century and alterations made in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It has two storeys and features a hall range with a parlour cross-wing extension to the right. The structure is timber-framed and plastered, and on the side wall of the parlour wing, there is a 17th-century pargetted cartouche that contains a damaged design in high relief, possibly an achievement. Smaller decorative motifs have been reset in later external plastering. The front wall of the main range was rebuilt in the 19th century up to the first floor using flint with painted brick quoins. The roofs are covered with plain tiles, with the cross-wing having a hipped roof.

The internal and rear chimneys are made of red brick, and the chimney stack of the 17th-century parlour wing features a pair of square diagonally-set flues on a plinth with a moulded cornice. The house has mainly 19th and early 20th-century casement windows. In the cross-wing, there are exposed 17th-century ovolo-moulded mullioned windows with three lights, which originally flanked larger windows that are now blocked. The entrance doors are boarded and battened oak, restored in either the early 20th century or 17th century. The main range has plain substantial framing from the 16th century and was originally a three-cell house. Inside the cross-wing, there is an original newel stair with turned balusters. Both the parlour and the chamber above feature moulded plaster ceilings with motifs that match those on the external walls. At the rear, there is a small 17th-century lean-to wing that is likely a garderobe tower.