The Old House

This is a farmhouse, now a house, located in Yalding Queen Street. The core of the building dates back to the 17th century, with a later, 18th-century parallel front range added. Both ranges are timber-framed. The front elevation of the 18th-century front range is clad in white-painted wooden blocks, resembling coursed masonry. The gable ends of both ranges are tile-hung on the first floor. The front range has a slate roof, while the rear range has a plain tile roof.

The rear range originally comprised approximately four timber-framed bays, and a front range of similar length was added later. The front range is two storeys high, resting on a painted brick plinth. It features flat eaves with evenly-spaced Ionic modillions. The roof is hipped, with a tall, projecting brick stack, built in Flemish bond with tile-hung shoulders, spanning almost the entire width of the left gable end. A smaller projecting brick gable end stack is located to the right. The front has a regular three-window arrangement, with tripartite sash windows on either side and a central sixteen-pane sash, all with thin glazing bars in open boxes, set within reeded architraves. Similar tripartite sashes are present on the ground floor. The central entrance consists of a six-panel door surmounted by a rectangular fanlight with radiating glazing bars, set within a rectangular architrave, and accessed by two stone steps.

The rear range is two storeys and has an attic. The roof is half-hipped to the left and hipped to the right, with a brick ridge stack to the left of centre and a slender projecting gable end stack to the right. Two gabled two-light dormers are visible on the rear roof slope, alongside rear casement windows on both ground and first floors. A single-storey addition extends from the rear to the right.

The interior of the building was only partly inspected; exposed timber framing and an inglenook fireplace are visible on the ground floor of the rear range. The front range contains later 18th-century features.