Sideways

This is a house dating from the mid-16th century, with later alterations and some earlier fragments. It is timber-framed and rendered, with panels of old comb-patterned pargetting on the rear wall, and has a pantile roof. The house is one-and-a-half storeys high and has a three-cell form, with a single-storey lean-to added in the 18th century to the left gable end. An internal chimney-stack, constructed in two sections with a plain red brick shaft, serves the house. Dormers with plain bargeboards are present, containing old two-light casement windows with a single bar to each light. The ground floor has two three-light casement windows with two bars to each light, and one two-light window to the left. A 17th-century one-and-a-half-storey entrance porch stands in a lobby-entrance position against the chimney stack; it has a two-light casement window to the upper floor, and a wide segmental-arched entrance with panelled jambs and a damaged keystone, now containing a half-glazed door. Internally, exposed timber framing is visible in five bays, including a chimney-bay. To the right of the stack is a two-bay parlour with plain, unchamfered joists set flat, and a chamfered main beam with curved step stops. A straight flight of stairs has been inserted through the middle of the chimney stack. To the left of the stack is a two-bay hall with chamfered joists, and a similar main beam to that in the parlour. A small service area is divided off by a plank-and-muntin screen, from which the planks have been recently removed. This area had two doorways with arched heads, one likely for a stair. Evidence of remodelling is visible; the rear wall was realigned in the 18th century, but the original sill beam remains, along with some studding, a main post, and replacement brick nogging. A corresponding main post is located in the front wall, and both posts have empty mortices indicating a former partition, possibly the original location of the plank-and-muntin screen and an associated open hall. Wallplates and roof timbers all date from the 18th-century alterations. The roof has poor rafters, a ridge piece, and butt purlins. One original truss to the parlour end, against the right side of the stack, features long pegged braces and wattle-and-daub infill. The house is set sideways-on to the road.