Guildhall

The Guildhall, originally built around 1500, has served various purposes over the years, including as a parish workhouse and later as cottages, and is now a single dwelling. It features a timber-framed and plastered structure with a thatched roof, standing two storeys high with attics. The building has a jettied gable end on the left, which is mostly hidden by a lean-to addition. There are five windows, primarily 18th-century three-light casements without glazing bars. The two doorways have mid-20th-century plank and six-panel doors.

The roof includes three flat-roofed dormers with older two-light windows. There are internal and gable stacks on the right, both with cross-axial shafts. The frame consists of five bays, with a single four-bay room on each floor, and one-bay rooms at the west end on the ground floor and the east end on the first floor. Although the cross-partition on the ground floor has been removed, evidence of two doorways remains in the girding beam.

The building features heavy bridging beams with solid arched braces to the wall posts, and exposed joists on the ground floor, most of which have been replaced with materials from elsewhere. The first floor retains largely intact plain studding, with signs of original windows featuring square mullions and two deep sills for oriel windows. Heavy arched braces support the tie beams. The wallplate exhibits very short edge-halved and bridled scarf joints.

In the east gable end, there is a lintel from a former 16th-century fireplace, with the associated stack largely replaced in the 18th century. The east bay has a 17th-century ceiling with plain joists set flat. The pitchpine floors in the other bays date from around 1750, coinciding with the conversion to a workhouse. The internal stack is also an 18th-century addition. The roof structure features queen-posts with curved tension braces connecting the jowled head of each post to the end of the tie beam, along with king-posts that spring from the tie beams and are halved over the collars, braced to a substantial ridge-piece.