Plantation House

Plantation House is a house dating from around 1500 and later. It has one-and-a-half storeys and features a 4-bay, 3-cell plan, originally designed with an open hall flanked by two storied ends. An additional bay from the 18th century is located at the north end. The building is timber-framed and rendered on the front, with colour-washed brick at the north end, topped by a thatched roof. It has two small chimney stacks at the ends and a single-storey lean-to along the west side.

The ground storey has 2-light small-paned casement windows, while the upper storey features two gabled and tiled dormers with fluted bargeboards, along with a half-glazed door. Inside, widely-spaced studding is exposed. The tie-beam of the open truss, supported by long arched braces, has been cut through, revealing mutilated remains of shafts down the front of the posts. The roof is smoke-blackened throughout the four original bays and includes clasped side purlins of triangular section and a ridge-piece, with vestigial queen-posts in the end partitions of the hall. These partitions do not extend above collar-level, and there was formerly a hip over the lower end.

Housings for two 6-light diamond-mullioned hall windows can be found in the soffits of the wall-plates. The partition at the upper end of the hall has been cut away at ground-storey level. A plain beam-and-joist ceiling from the late 16th century was inserted over the upper and part of the lower bay of the hall, leaving a wide opening for a smoke-bay at the lower end. By the 18th century, the smoke-bay was ceiled over, and the two ground storey rooms were heated by the end chimney stacks.