Oasthouse About 30 Metres West Of Court Lodge

This is an oasthouse, now functioning as a museum, located about 30 metres west of Court Lodge. It was built in 1815 and features red brick construction with a weatherboarded upper floor, a wooden cowl on the roundel, and a plain tile roof covering the stowage area. The building is two storeys high with a hipped roof, wooden casement windows on each floor, and boarded doors on the end elevation. The roundel has plate glass openings and a datestone on the north side.

Inside, the roundel is of the double ring type, with the inner canted wall supported by a parabolic brick core that has been cut away to show its construction. It is fired by four furnaces, which is an unusually large number for even drying. The cone is lined with wattle and plaster. The ground floor of the stowage is contemporary with the roundel, while the first floor and roof are timber framed and appear to have been reused from a late medieval hall house. This includes stop-chamfered joists, jowled posts, and soot-blackened rafters with evidence of collar purlins, indicating a crown-post roof origin. Some of the metal supporting straps for the timbers date back to the 17th or 18th century.