Guildhall Place

This is a three-bay, single-storey timber-framed building, likely constructed as a guildhall or similar public building in the late 15th or early 16th century. It was re-sited and used for agricultural purposes from the mid-19th century, re-roofed in the 20th century, renovated, and incorporated into a dwelling between 2008 and 2010.

The building is constructed with a timber frame on a brick plinth, with external rendering and a tiled roof. It has a linear plan and measures approximately 8 metres by 4 metres. The east and west elevations feature a 21st-century modillion cornice, while the north and south gables have barge boards. The principal east elevation has two original external door entrances now fitted with 21st-century external shutters, and restored three-light mullion windows to the ground and first floors. The west elevation has restored mullions of two, three, and five lights, alongside a door opening into a 21st-century porch attached to the south end. This porch wraps around the south end of the rear elevation, connecting the building to an unlisted barn to the south-west. The north gable end has a restored five-light mullion in the apex.

Internally, the main timbers are chamfered. While some sections of the sole plate, wall plate, and mid rail, and some studs, were replaced in the 21st century, the roof is of 20th-century construction, comprising principal rafters and purlins. The wall frames feature close studding, mid-rails, and arched bracing halved inside studs; wall and sole plates are jointed and pegged. Seven restored diamond mullioned windows with shutter grooving are present on all walls on both levels. The east-facing entrances have probable four-centred arched heads. Arched braces run from jowled and rebated posts to sharply cambered tie beams; the uprights of a queen post were removed to accommodate a new queen post roof structure. Storey posts contain mortices for binding joists to a potential second floor frame. Some wattle and daub panels remain, and the timber frame shows two phases of carpenters' marks, along with evidence of singeing from candles.

A 21st-century weatherboarded porch on a brick plinth, which leads into a barn, likely dating to the 16th century but modified in the 18th or 19th century, are excluded from the listing as they form part of the same dwelling.