Doggetts

Doggetts is a former farmhouse, largely of 14th to 16th century date, with later alterations. The building is complex, consisting of a long main range and a smaller rear wing set corner-to-corner and linked by a later rear addition. The main range and left gable end are timber framed and weatherboarded, while the rest is plastered. The roof is pantiled. The main range is two storeys with an attic, and contains mainly small-paned, 2-light casement windows of the 19th century; one older mullioned window is also present on the first floor. There are two plank doors. Above the left doorway on the first floor is a plaster panel dated 1711, within a lunette with an enriched border. A heavy internal stack is located to the right, with a lower portion of its shaft dating to the original construction. A 19th-century stack with a small square shaft is positioned to the left. The rear wing has a cement-rendered exterior, a shallow-pitched roof, standard casement windows, and a gable stack.

The earliest section of the main range, comprising two bays on the left-hand side, features a simple splayed scarf joint in the wallplate. This section was raised over one metre in the late 16th or early 17th century. An additional bay, dating to the 16th or early 17th century, is attached to this, followed by hall and parlour cells. A fine 15th to 16th century plank and muntin cross partition remains in the hall. The hall chimneybreast retains an early spit rack, and the hall chamber fireplace has a late 16th-century panelled plaster surround with raised borders. A later 16th-century, two-bay addition extends beyond the stack.

The upper floor of the hall shows heavy studding and reverse-curved braces. Evidence indicates two diamond-mullioned side windows were once present; below each is a lintol for a matching window, set unusually high above floor level. The parlour fireplace retains remnants of a Classical design on the plaster, and the chamber above features an arched brick fireplace. Within this chamber, an arch-braced cambered tie beam supports queen-posts – original bracing to the arcade plates is absent. The remaining roof structure is of a clasped-purlin form, representing a later reconstruction using 16th-century rafters. The rear wing, possibly of 15th-century origin, has widely-spaced studs with later insertions; a stack was added around 1600, and the walls were raised roughly one metre around 1800.

"Doggetts" has undergone few changes since the 17th century, and retains some plank doors, old plaster, and brick floors.