Lady Margaret House

Lady Margaret House is a house that dates from the late 16th century, with extensions added in the early 17th century. A stack was inserted in the late 17th century, and the building has been altered in the 20th century. It features a timber frame that is plastered and has steeply pitched roofs covered with machine tiles. The house appears to be a three-cell lobby entry range but was originally likely five storeys with a smoke bay on the right, service and cross passage bays on the left, and a parlour added to the right, along with a two-bay kitchen/dairy wing at the rear, forming a T shape in plan.

The building has two storeys. The cross passage entrance has been blocked, and to the right, there is a 20th-century lobby entrance situated between the hall and parlour within a shallow porch. The windows include one, two, and three-light leaded casements with hoodboards, some of which contain early glass, and the eaves are boxed. An axial ridge stack has been inserted in the smoke bay between the hall and parlour, and the right gable end reveals exposed double purlins. The service wing extends behind the former passage and hall, featuring a left return internal kitchen stack and an entrance into the dairy. The windows include mixed casements and 20th-century dormers, and there is a shallow addition behind the parlour with a door and hipped roof.

Inside, the house displays close studding with chamfered mid-rails. The hall contains stop-chamfered storey posts, an axial binding beam, and a fireplace bressumer. The parlour and service wing feature stop-chamfered cross axial binding beams. The original building has a queen post roof with square-set plates and purlins between straight posts and collars, as well as longitudinal reverse cranked braces. The roofs of the parlour and service wing have not been inspected.