The Old House

The Old House is a house dating from the 15th century, with alterations made in the late 16th century. It is timber-framed with plaster infill, limestone rubble and brick, and has a brick ridge stack and a tiled hipped roof with a right-hand cross wing. The house follows a Wealden-type plan, incorporating a lobby entry which was added when the stack was inserted, and a right-hand service room under a catslide roof.

The left-hand section is jettied to the front and end with curved corner brackets, including a larger one on the corner. This section contains a two-light first-floor casement. The left-hand return has ground-floor compression braces and first-floor tension braces, with central casements to each floor. The central former hall range is set back under the eaves, featuring a central curved brace, a mortice in the wall plate from a former diagonal left-hand brace, and a tension brace in the left-hand bay. It includes former central doorway in line with the stack, two three-light ground-floor casements and a right-hand first-floor casement, some incorporating diamond-section mullions. The right-hand cross wing projects forward and has a jettied upper floor, a left-hand buttress or former chimney with stone at the base and brick above, and three-light casements, the ground-floor ones being larger. A brick service range sits on the right-hand return, under a catslide roof.

The interior was not inspected, but is reported to have an octagonal crown post roof and a dragon beam to the south-west corner.