Martins

Martins is a house, formerly a farmhouse, dating from the mid 16th century. It has a three-cell lobby-entrance plan and is one and a half storeys tall with attics. The building is timber-framed and rendered, featuring a hipped thatched roof with 17th century red brick chimneys and gabled casement dormers with plain tiles. The windows include 20th century casements with leaded lights and some restored diamond-mullioned windows from the mid 20th century. There is a 20th century gabled entrance porch with a battened and boarded entrance door. The frame of the building is unusually complete and well-exposed, showing evidence of original doorways, including one with a four-centred arch at the head, as well as several original blocked windows and tension-braced close-studding.