Rayleigh House

Rayleigh House is a house, which was later used as a shop, built in the 18th century and altered and extended in the 19th century. It has a timber frame with a roughcast exterior and a steeply pitched corrugated sheet roof. The building consists of two cells with a central stack and is two storeys high with an attic.

On the ground floor, to the right, there is a four-panelled door and a nine-pane casement window with a hoodboard. To the left, there is a vertically panelled door and an eight-pane former shop window with a hooded cornice. The first floor features part-opening three-light glazing bar casements. The central ridge stack is prominent, and the right end has a pentice board to the weatherboarded gable, which includes a small attic window. The left end has a two-light glazing bar attic casement, with exposed plates and purlins.

At the rear, there is a two-light casement and a four-over-eight pane sash window. Additionally, there is a single-storey 19th-century kitchen bay with a pantiled roof and an extruded stack in a lean-to outshut. Inside, there is an early 19th-century fireplace and cross axial binding beams.