The Dragon House

The Dragon House is a former public house, now a private dwelling, located in Horham. It dates from the late 16th century and 17th century, constructed in several phases, with a facade added around 1920. The building features a timber frame with plastered walls, including early 20th-century plaster panels decorated with ropework pargetting. The roof is covered with asbestos slates on the front slope and pantiles on the rear. It has two storeys and an attic, with a range of three casement windows, each having a single horizontal glazing bar. There are two doorways: on the left is a six-panel door with the upper two panels glazed and a flat bracketed hood, while the right has a four-panel door. The ground floor windows have hoodmoulds, with the hoodmould of the right window extending over the adjacent doorway. The building has gable stacks, with a later stack on the front roof slope. To the right, there is a single-storey weatherboarded addition, and a one-and-a-half-storey rear wing. The interior has been somewhat altered, making the original layout unclear, and the house has experienced fire damage at some point. The left end is the oldest part, featuring a two-bay ground floor room with a chamfered-joist ceiling and an open fireplace. Evidence of early to mid-17th-century work can be seen on the upper floor at the right end. Both main stacks appear to be later additions. There is a 17th-century lean-to at the rear, possibly for stairs, which has a late 17th-century secondary window with square mullions and diamond glazing bars visible in the rear wall. The roof, which was not fully inspected, seems to have been almost entirely rebuilt.