The Old House

The Old House is a house that was later used as a shop. It dates from the mid-16th century and was extended or partially rebuilt in the late 17th century, further extended in the 19th century, and altered in the 20th century. The building features a timber frame with a roughcast exterior and has a steeply pitched black glazed pantiled roof.

The structure has four storeyed bays with the service end located to the right and two later bays to the left. It is two storeys high. On the ground floor, there is a straight joint leading to a slightly recessed later addition. To the right, there is a part-glazed door, architraved French windows, and a large 20th-century bow window that replaced the original shop window. To the left, there is a four-panelled architraved door and two small casement windows.

On the first floor, there are four 4:8 pane architraved sash windows and a two-light casement window. The building has spocket eaves and an axial ridge stack in the left bay of the early build, which has a moulded base and a rebuilt cap. At the rear left, there is a 19th-century single glazing bar sash window and two brick and clay lump pantiled lean-tos that block an early lobby entrance. To the right, there is a 19th-century whitewashed brick one-bay lower two-storey addition with a slate roof that leads to The Cottage. This addition features an outer half-glazed blocked door and a first-floor two-light leaded casement window.

Inside, the house has close studding with a chamfered mid-rail, a bar stop chamfered cross axial binding beam, joists, and storey posts. There is a depressed arched doorhead behind the stack, and a later chamfered axial binding beam in the parlour. The early walls have cranked arched braces, and there are arched braces to stop chamfered cambered tie beams supporting the queen post roof. The roof consists of four bays with arched braces to cranked collars and to plates and purlins, while the later build features reverse curved tension bracing and a clasped purlin roof.