The Old House

The Old House is a house dating from the mid-16th century, with later alterations and a largely 20th-century facade. It is timber framed, featuring a red brick facade in Flemish bond on the ground floor, with applied close studding and rendered infilling on the first floor. The roof is covered with plain tiles. The structure consists of three timber-framed bays, with two on the right and one, likely added later, on the left of the stack. The house has two storeys and an attic, and it originally had a continuous jetty. The roof is slightly lower on the left side of the stack. There are two adjoining ridge stacks to the left of the center and one that slightly projects from the right gable end. A single dormer is present, and the fenestration is irregular, featuring five 2-light casements—two to the left and one to the right of the center. The 20th-century features include two-storey gables and a jettied porch with a half-glazed door located beneath the central stack. There is also a shallow single-storey gabled projection to the right and a lean-to on the right end. Inside, the house displays exposed framing of heavy scantling, with mortices for diamond mullion windows, plain crown posts, and two ground-floor doors with moulded jambs. There is an inglenook fireplace with a chalk flue within the house, and brick at the base and top.