The Shrubberies

The Shrubberies is a house built around 1840 in the Gothic style, with a core that dates back to the 16th century and possibly earlier. The building has two storeys and is timber-framed, mostly covered in 19th-century flint rubble with red brick dressings. It features a dentil eaves cornice made of gault brick. At the rear, the timber framing is plastered. The main structure includes a short single-storey hall range with symmetrical cross-wings, which may have been altered in the 19th century. The roofs are covered with plain tiles, and the cross-wings have hipped roofs topped with fleur-de-lys crested ridge tiles.

The mid-19th-century chimneys are made of red brick and have clusters of two and three octagonal shafts with moulded caps and bases. The windows from the same period have 4-centred arched heads and hood moulds, featuring small-pane casements with intersecting glazing bars in the spandrels above. There is a single-storey open entrance porch made of red brick, which has 4-centred arched openings and embattled parapets, leading to a six-panelled door. Other entrance doorways have hood-moulded 2-centred arched heads with battened and boarded doors.

To the right is a mid-19th-century wing made of red brick, featuring hood-moulded small-pane sash windows. The central part of the house is a much-altered 16th-century structure with a plain crown post roof and massive unchamfered floor joists. There is some evidence of fragmentary medieval work, including a storey-post that shows signs of an arch-braced open hall truss. Although the roof level has been raised, the low eaves level remains at the front.