Abbey View

Abbey View is a house dating from the late 15th century, with a mid-17th century rear wing that forms an L-shape plan. The building underwent alterations around 1600, 1700, and 1924. It is timber-framed, with the facade and gable ends encased in red brick from around 1924, featuring white brick dressings at the corners. The rear is plastered. The roof has double Roman tiles on the front and pantiles on the rear. The house has two storeys and an attic, originally designed as an open hall house with a three-cell layout.

There are three windows on the front, which are three-light casements set under segmental lintels. Two 17th-century mullioned windows have been opened out at the rear. The entrance features a lobby with a mid-20th century six-panel door and an open lean-to porch. Inside, there is an internal stack and two additional stacks in the rear wing, one located at the gable end. The building retains an intact frame with four bays and almost straight arched braces, along with evidence of original diamond-mullioned windows.

A cambered tie beam over the former open hall shows signs of a crown-post. The parlour, accessed through an original four-centre arched doorway, has substantial plain joists, possibly a replacement ceiling from the 16th century. Around 1600, the hall was floored over with an axial bridging beam and chamfered joists, with a stack inserted into the upper bay at that time. The intact hall fireplace shows evidence of lining with mortar joists. In about 1700, the walls were raised by over one metre, although the current roof dates from around 1924. There is an oak newel stair with two flights. The parlour chamber features a duck's nest grate from around 1800. The mid-17th century two-cell wing at the rear was likely a separate dwelling, with ceilings that have plain joists and an original open fireplace on the ground floor.