The Old House

The Old House is a house dating from the 15th century and later. It has one storey and attics, and is now arranged in a three-cell lobby entrance form. The structure is timber-framed and rendered, with a thatched roof and an internal chimney stack featuring a plain shaft. The house has 20th-century casement windows and one gabled dormer. The frame consists of four bays, with the eastern bay being an 18th-century extension. The two central bays show signs of having been an open hall, and on the upper storey, there are remains of two long five-light diamond-mullioned windows, with the mullions still in place on the rear wall. The original end tie-beam has been cut through to allow access to the 18th-century addition. The roof is supported by rafters, and the original timbers are very lightweight, including coppice wood. The ceiling of the central ground storey room is a 17th-century insertion.