Shilston House

Shilston House is a house dating from the 15th century, with alterations from the 16th or 17th century and a facade added in the mid-18th century. It is timber framed, with the front elevation featuring a chequered pattern of red and grey brick. The right gable end is rendered, while the rear elevation is brick. The roof is covered with plain tiles and is steeply pitched with a hipped design. The house has an open hall consisting of two timber-framed bays, with a storeyed end bay to the right and a non-extant storeyed left end bay. It is likely a Wealden house, with the hall facade built out. The building has two storeys and a plat band. There is a ridge stack towards the left end of the house and a projecting gable-end stack to the right. The windows are irregularly placed, featuring three 19th-century tripartite sashes in open boxes, and there are half-glazed double doors towards the centre. A lean-to is present on the left gable end. The bricks surrounding the door have scratch dates of 1750 along with various initials.

Inside, there are remnants of a moulded right end-of-hall beam and a boxed axial beam in the right ground-floor room. The central-truss tie-beam is doubly-hollow-chamfered and shows evidence of virtually solid spandrel arch braces. There is a moulded octagonal crown post and a plain crown post with foot braces in the right end of the hall, featuring vertical queen struts to the rafters and mortices for a stave partition under the collar. Evidence of an inner hall wall-plate can be found towards the front of the house. The right hall bay has a chamfered axial beam and bevelled joists from the 16th or 17th century, while the left hall bay has bevelled axial joists. A brick fireplace with a wooden bressumer is located on the right side of the stack.