Corn House Three Trees

Corn House and Three Trees is a Grade II listed building originally constructed as a single house, now divided into two unequal parts. It was built in three main phases: around 1500, in the mid-16th century, and in the late 16th century. The structure is timber-framed and plastered, topped with a thatched roof, and has two storeys with four windows featuring 19th-century three-light small-paned casements.

On the ground floor, there are two mid-16th-century windows with moulded mullions. The entrance to No. 22 has a 19th-century boarded door, while No. 20 features a mid-20th-century four-panel door. Both doorways and the 19th-century ground floor windows are adorned with bracketed drip boards. Internally, there is a stack with a 20th-century common brick shaft and a heavy 19th-century stack against the right gable end.

The earliest phase, located to the left (No. 22), includes a former open hall divided into two unequal bays, featuring a butt purlin roof, which is a rare medieval design. The open truss has long arched braces connected to a slightly cambered collar, notably lacking a tie beam, and all roof components show heavy sooting. In the mid-16th century, the service end was incorporated into a two-bay unheated parlour, which boasts a ceiling with a moulded bridging beam supported by storey posts with carved heads, and joists that have a single roll moulding. The roof over this section is partly of butt purlin form, with clasped purlins where extended and cranked wind braces, displaying light sooting that indicates the open hearth was likely retained when the parlour was added.

In the late 16th century, a stack was inserted into the lower bay of the medieval hall, which was then ceiled over with plain joists set flat. During this time, a service cell was added, and the functions of the hall and parlour were reversed. Evidence exists for two square-headed doorways in the service partition, and the roof over the service cell is of clasped purlin form, without sooting.