The Little House

The Little House is a house dating from the mid to late 15th century, with a stack and floor added in the late 16th century, and an extension made in the mid 17th century. It has been altered in the 20th century. The building features a timber frame with plaster and a thatched roof. Originally, it was a small two-bay open hall with a storeyed solar, while the presumed service bay has since disappeared. There is a one-bay, two-storey addition at a right angle from the lower end of the hall, creating a small L shape in the layout. The house is now entirely two storeys high.

The main entrance is located in the gable end at the cross passage end of the hall, featuring a 20th-century entrance within a timber and glazed thatched gabled porch. The windows are two-light leaded casements. The right side of the house has similar casements and a 20th-century entrance with a half-glazed door leading towards the rear into the solar bay. The ridge stack at the upper end of the hall has been rebuilt. The 17th-century bay at the front left has a lower ridge and an extruded gable end stack with offsets.

At the rear, there is an attached early 19th-century outshut made of clay lump and pantiles. Inside, there are four-centred arched door heads for the cross passage entrances, with a mortice for a screen. The posts supporting the open truss have semi-octagonal shafts with capitals acting as corbels for the arched braces; one of these remains and features triple roll moulding over a bell cap and roll moulded necking. The inserted floor includes a stop-chamfered axial binding beam and joists, with a stack inserted in the upper bay of the hall. There is a chamfered four-centred arched doorway leading into the storeyed solar bay, which has a close-studded partition and large reverse curved arched braces in the solar end wall, along with a four-light diamond mullioned window opening.

On the first floor, there are heavily chamfered jowled posts supporting the open truss, with a sharply cambered tie beam and large chamfered arched braces featuring a double chamfer at the center of the tie beam. The crown post is concealed, and in the solar, there is an arched brace from the closed truss crown post to the collar purlin, which is cut with a strut to an inserted collar. The 17th-century bay has a stop-chamfered cross axial binding beam, joists, and storey posts.