The Evergreen Oak

The Evergreen Oak is a former public house, now a dwelling, dating from the early 16th century. It has two storeys and features a three-cell internal chimney and cross-passage plan. The building is timber-framed and rendered, topped with a plain tiled roof that includes fragments of decorative ridge-tiles. There is a rebuilt plain shaft for the internal stack, and a 19th-century external stack on the west end, accompanied by a small single-storey lean-to.

The property has 20th-century three-light casement windows with leaded panes and a 20th-century boarded and studded door set in a plain surround, featuring a 16th-century four-centred arched head. The frame consists of four bays, with all timbering exposed on the interior. The service end on the west is divided into two rooms, with a partition wall that includes two doorways, one of which has an arched head.

Inside, the cross-passage is marked by a plank-and-muntin screen, with the muntins showcasing roll-mouldings that match the mouldings on the ceiling joists in the two bays of the hall. The main cross-beam has a chamfer and curved stops, and is lodged into posts without a tie-beam on the upper storey. The internal chimney serves only one hearth, which heats the hall and features a large open fireplace with a timber lintel. The parlour on the east remains unheated.

There are two original stair positions: one, now blocked, against the south wall of the service end, and the other, which contains a later stair, on the south side of the stack. This latter stair originally provided access only to the room above the parlour. To the west of the stack, the upper storey is a single large room, with an open truss above the service partition, featuring a cambered tie-beam and heavy arched braces. The roof is a queen-post design, with flat-set purlins supported by arched braces. The building also retains arched braces at the frame angles and the remains of diamond-mullioned windows throughout, some still containing original mullions.