4, Church Road

This is a house dating back to the 15th century, with a cross-wing added forward around 1800, and renovated around 1985. It’s a hall range with a projecting cross-wing to the right. The hall range is timber framed and rendered, with a pantiled roof. The wing is two storeys high with a small attic. The windows are small-paned casements, and the doors are panelled, all dating from the 1980s. A gabled dormer window is present. There is an internal stack in the hall range, where it joins the wing, and another stack of later date in the wing.

Inside the two-bay former open hall, the original coupled-rafter roof remains. The tie beam of the open truss has been cut away, and all framing is now concealed. A fine cross-beamed ceiling was added in the early 16th century. The main axial beam is decorated with cavetto and roll mouldings, and intersecting beams have double cavetto moulding, with cavetto-moulded joists that have an undercut roll on the soffits. Matchboarding is present between the joists. A stack inserted into the presumed upper bay of the hall incorporates sections of unfired brick, an unusual detail.

The cross-wing has three bays; some exposed studding is visible, along with one open tie beam with a single thick brace to one wallpost, and a second tie beam that has been removed. On the ground floor, there are some heavy, irregular joists and evidence of an arched doorway dividing one bay. The roof over the wing was largely renewed in the 1980s, but some older timbers remain at the rear. This building is listed for its group value.