Orchard House

Orchard House is a former farmhouse built in three stages: the early 16th century, late 16th century, and early 17th century. It has two storeys and a long three-cell layout. The building is timber-framed and plastered, with earlier phases featuring concealed herringbone bricknogging infill. The roof is covered with pantiles and has red brick chimneys. Notably, there is a fine 16th-century external parlour chimney on the left gable, which has a diaperwork pattern made from burnt headers and an arch-headed recess at its base. The flanks of this stack are crowstepped, and it has twin octagonal shafts, possibly a later rebuild. There is a central axial 17th-century chimney with three square shafts linked at the head, and a similar two-flue chimney on the right, likely a 19th-century copy. The windows are mainly 20th-century casements, some featuring small panes. The entrance door, dating from the early 19th century, has six fielded panels.

The parlour block on the left showcases fine carpentry from around 1520, including beams and joists with triple roll-mouldings and an embattled cornice. It features a wide moulded fireplace lintel with leaf-carved spandrels; the fireplace in the chamber above has a similar but simpler lintel, and a smaller 17th-century plastered arched fireplace has been inserted beneath it. Originally, the parlour block was roofed in the opposite direction and extended southwards. The later 16th-century work includes chamfered ceiling joists and arch windbraced close-studding, while the 17th-century service accommodation on the right has unmoulded framing.