Plovers

Plovers is a house dating from the 15th century, with alterations made around 1600 and 1850. It is a 3-cell open hall house with one and a half storeys and attics. The structure is timber-framed and rendered, topped with a thatched roof featuring eyebrow casement dormers. There are 16th-century axial and 19th-century gable chimneys made of red brick. The house has 2- and 3-light 19th-century windows with small-paned wrought iron casements, where the top row of panes has arched heads. The entrance door, made of oak and boarded, is from the 20th century, and there is an open timber porch with a lean-to thatched roof.

The core of the house from the 15th century has been significantly damaged by alterations in the 17th and 19th centuries. Inside, the hall features an open truss with an arch-braced cambered tie-beam supported by pilasters beneath the braces; it used to have a 4-way braced crown post. Around 1600, the original crown-post roof was replaced with a clasped purlin roof, and a chimney was built backing onto the cross-passage. An elm floor was inserted into the hall at the first floor level. The house was divided into three cottages around 1850.