Waterloo House

Waterloo House is a house dating from the early to mid-16th century. It features a timber frame and plastered exterior, with the ground floor either cased or rebuilt in colourwashed brick. The roof is covered with plaintiles. The building has two storeys and an attic, with a jettied facade that includes a bressummer carved with running leaf decoration. The house has a two-cell form and three windows, primarily 18th-century three-light mullion and transom casements, along with two 20th-century windows on the ground floor.

The entrance door is boarded and has moulded fillets, set within a mid-19th-century reeded architrave with corner roundels. Access to the doorway is via a flight of three steps. Inside, there is an internal stack, and both ground floor rooms boast impressive ceilings featuring multiple mouldings on the bridging beams, along with moulded joists that have scrolled stop-chamfers and soffits with sunk spandrels that terminate in a cross. Each room also has similarly moulded cornices at the ends. The hall shows evidence of a screened cross-passage.

On the first floor, there is notable studding with indications of two phases of windows. The original windows have separate lintels that are pegged into the frame, which is a very unusual feature. Some re-used 16th and 17th-century panelling is present, with one section inscribed 'REPENT LAMENT AN SIN'. The attic floor dates from the 17th century and has joists set on edge. The roof structure includes a single row of clasped purlins and cranked wind-bracing. The current stack, which has back-to-back fireplaces, is a later addition; it is likely that there was originally a stack against the rear wall of the hall.