Welcum-U-B

Welcum-U-B is a house dating from the 15th century, featuring one-and-a-half storeys and four bays, and was originally constructed with an open hall. The building is timber-framed and rendered, topped with a thatched roof, and includes an internal chimney stack with a plain red brick shaft. There is a single-storey extension at the east end and a small lean-to along part of the front. The windows have been replaced with 20th-century casements, and there is one eyebrow dormer along with a plank door set in a brick surround.

Inside, the structure retains one bay of the open hall, which is separated by a stud and plaster partition from a storied bay that features a ceiling made of rough, heavy, unchamfered joists. There is an original doorway leading into the hall, which still shows the positions of two long windows on the side walls and has smoke-blackening on the partition wall, rafters, and collars above the upper ceiling level. The rear wallplate displays a stop-splayed and tabled scarfing joint with a transverse key. One arched brace remains in place, although the tie-beam of the open truss has been cut away and part of it has been repurposed as a fireplace lintel, with a large empty mortice indicating it once supported a crown-post.

The second bay of the hall was likely remodelled and extended in the late 16th century, now containing a chimney stack with an open fireplace and a single-bay unheated room that has a plain beam-and-joist ceiling. The gable end on the west features two diagonal timbers resembling truncated passing braces, halved against the tie-beam, and there is evidence of a former hip along with diamond-mullion housings in the soffit of the collar, all suggesting a series of structural changes over time.