Kayden House

Kayden House is a house dating from the 16th and 17th centuries. It features a timber-framed structure that is rendered and topped with black glazed pantiles. The house has an internal chimney stack with three attached square shafts arranged diamond-wise on a rectangular base made of Tudor brick. It has two storeys and an attic in part, with three 3-light windows on each storey, all of which were replaced in the 1980s in a traditional style. There is a 20th-century door on the extreme left within a plain older surround, and various extensions have been added at the rear.

The house has a three-cell plan, but not all parts were built at the same time. The chimney stack and the section to the left of it are an early 17th-century extension or replacement of an older core, featuring ovolo-mouldings on the main beams of the ground and first floors, and long jowls on the main posts. To the right of the stack, there is a single bay with 16th-century double roll-mouldings on the main beams and single roll-moulding on the joists. The main cross-beam projects forward from the chimney stack and is not connected to it. Next to the main posts supporting this beam are the remains of another pair of posts with empty mortices for long braces. The bay at the right end has been significantly altered on the ground floor, while the upper floor retains a wide chamfer on the main beam of the original ceiling, widely spaced studs, and a small 17th-century fireplace with a brick arch on the rear wall, along with a face-halved scarf in the wallplate. An addition at the rear includes a straight flight of stairs with some shaped Jacobean balusters. The roof to the left of the stack is inaccessible, while the right side features two rows of unstepped butt purlins, although the central section likely replaces an earlier roof.