Old Robus

A house dating from the early to mid 17th century, with a later 19th or early 20th-century addition. The house is timber-framed with plaster infilling, and has a plain tile roof. It stands on a stone plinth. The front elevation and right gable end feature close-studded timbering with intermittent mid-height rails to each storey. There is a continuous jetty, and the ends of the beams indicate two original timber-framed bays, with a shorter central entry bay. The roof is gabled, and the eaves are jettied on a moulded bressumer to the right gable end, with a pierced and enriched pendant to the front corner. A large projecting gable-end stack is located to the right, built on a flint plinth with stone quoins. The stack itself is red brick in English bond, with tumbled shoulders and two diagonally-set flues set on a rectangular brick plinth with a moulded cornice. The front has an irregular fenestration of three windows: a leaded three-light casement to the left, a two-light window to the right, and a central twenty-pane sash window. A ribbed door is located towards the centre, set in a rectangular moulded architrave, and is reached by three steps. A red and grey brick rear lean-to has been added, standing on a stone plinth. A two-storey addition in a cross-wing style was built to the right, projecting slightly forwards. The ground floor of the addition is painted brick, the first floor is painted pebbledash with straight flush framing and it has a gabled plain tile roof and a single six-pane first-floor sash window. The interior was not inspected.