The Old Guildhall

The Old Guildhall is a late 15th-century building that originally served as the hall of the Guild of St. Peter. It was converted into 12 almshouses in the 16th century and restored as two houses in the early 1960s. The structure is timber-framed and plastered, featuring plaintiled roofs. The east-west range has a gabled end at the east and a hipped roof with a small gablet on the west. It is two storeys tall and has an L-shaped form, with an internal chimney stack in each range. The windows are mid-20th century casements with square-leaded panes, and the doors are also from the 20th century.

Notable features include two small late 17th-century plaster panels with floral designs, which have been reset in the outer wall of the east-west range above the door. The brickwork on the south side of the chimney stack was left exposed during restoration. Inside the north-south range, there is very heavy studding and two plain crown-post trusses with arched braces, indicating that it was originally built as a three-bay open hall, similar to the hall arrangement at Church House in Hawstead, another late 15th-century guildhall. Additionally, on a later cross-wall at the south end, there is a large plaster panel in high relief from around 1600, depicting Abraham about to sacrifice Isaac, framed with strapwork and scrolls.