The Old Crown

The Old Crown is a house that was later used as a public house and has been divided into three dwellings. It dates from the early 16th century, with parts rebuilt and extended around 1600, and alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building features a timber frame that is plastered, with restored combed scrolled pargetting in panels, and has steeply pitched pantiled roofs. Originally, it had four bays, including a small two-bay open hall and two storeyed lower bays; the hall bays have largely been rebuilt, with a stack and parlour added to the left.

The structure is two storeys high, with an entrance into the upper bay of the hall accessed through a 20th-century brick gabled porch. It has two and three-light glazing bar casements, and the doors into the parlour and service ends have been replaced with 20th-century windows. There is an axial ridge stack to the left of centre between the hall and parlour, which has a rebuilt cap. The centre section has a slightly higher roof, defining three two-bay sections, with the left end being half hipped and featuring a gablet. Lean-to outshuts are present on both ends. At the rear, there is a boarded door in the cross passage position and a rebuilt external stack on the service end.

Inside, there are cross passage doorways with a four-centred arched doorhead at the front, and chamfered surrounds to two service doorways. The hall features close studding with mid-rails, a stop-chamfered axial binding beam, and a fireplace bressumer, along with traces of a large window at the rear. The front has four-light diamond mullioned window openings, and a chamfered cross axial binding beam in the lower bays. The parlour contains a chamfered four-centred arched brick fireplace, with the frame concealed. A newel stair is located in front of the stack.

On the first floor, the solar end wall has an early window opening that cuts through the tie beam, with arched braces from the principals to the raised tie beam for the open truss at the centre of the solar. The roof over the two early bays features queen posts with arched braces to the plates and purlins, and the open truss has a collar clasping the plates and purlins. The two pairs of rafters nearest the former open hall are smoke blackened. The hall bays have a later open truss tie beam that has been cut, with a straight arched brace to the tie beam at the upper end, chamfered principals, and cambered collars clasping the purlins, along with arched windbraces. The parlour chamber has close studding with a tension brace in the end wall and has been reroofed.