Driftway

Driftway is a house dating from the early 17th century, with alterations made in the 18th century. It features a two-cell end chimney plan and is one storey high with attics. The structure is timber-framed and plastered, topped with a thatched roof that includes eyebrow dormers fitted with small-pane casements. There is an external 17th-century chimney on the right made of narrow pale pink bricks and a red brick 18th-century chimney on the left. The windows are late 19th or 20th-century small-pane casements with three lights. The entrance porch, which is gabled and has plain tiles, was added in the late 20th century and includes a boarded door. The building retains quite complete unmoulded framing and features chamfered floor joists laid flat. Inside, there are two open lintelled fireplaces. The right-hand cell, which contains the hall, remains largely unaltered from the 17th century, while the rest of the house underwent significant changes in the 18th and 19th centuries, although it still contains elements from the 15th and 16th centuries.