The Old Queens

The Old Queens is a house, later used as a public house, dating to circa 1600, with significant rebuilding in the 17th century and later alterations and extensions in the 20th century. It is timber-framed and plastered, with a steeply pitched machine tiled roof. Originally, the house likely had a three-cell plan, probably with a cross passage, and the hall and service bays represent a rebuilding of an earlier range. The building is two storeys high. The entrance is positioned in the cross passage area, to the right of centre, and features a 20th-century gabled porch with a panelled door and a three-light casement window with glazing bars. The ground level steps down, with a straight joint to the parlour bays on the left. The eaves are boxed. A rebuilt axial ridge stack is situated between the hall and parlour. A 20th-century wing extends to the rear right. The interior reveals close studding, stop-chamfered axial binding beams, first-floor mortices for a four-light diamond mullioned window, cranked braces in the walling over the parlour, cambered tie beams, and collars clasping purlins with cranked windbraces over the parlour end.