Fen House

Fen House is a former farmhouse dating from the late 15th century or early 16th century, which has been altered and extended in the 20th century. It is a three-cell open hall house with two storeys, constructed from timber framing and plaster. The building features a hipped thatched roof with an axial chimney made of red brick. The windows are mainly late 20th century casements, and there is a thatched gabled entrance porch from the 20th century with a boarded door.

This house is a well-built and relatively unaltered example of a late medieval structure. The open hall consists of two bays, with an open truss that has a cambered tie-beam and massive chamfered arch-braces that rise from pilasters at floor level, although one brace is missing. The interior includes tension-braced close studwork and heavy unchamfered joists, along with a complete smoke-blackened coupled-rafter roof.

In the late 16th or early 17th century, a chimney was added in the cross entry, and an upper floor with chamfered joists was inserted into the hall. The service rooms were combined, and the house was functionally reversed, placing the service accommodation at the right-hand end. The rear wing on the right is a 20th-century extension, which may have remodeled a pre-existing structure.