Bishops

Bishops is a house dating from the 15th or early 16th century, with 19th-century additions. It features a timber frame with plaster infilling and a plain tile roof. The building is designed in the Wealden style, consisting of two unequal-length hall bays and storeyed end bays, and it has two storeys plus an attic. The studding is broadly spaced, and there are ogee tension braces on the right and left end bays. The end bays are jettied, with the jetties returning on plain dragon-posts. An inserted hall floor, which was formerly jettied, had the jetty removed from the left hall bay in the early 20th century and was underbuilt to the right. The roof is steeply pitched and hipped, featuring gablets, and there is a multiple brick ridge stack on the front slope of the roof to the left hall bay, along with a rear stack to the left and a projecting brick stack on the right gable end.

The house has two gabled dormers and irregular fenestration, including three leaded windows: one canted 6-light mullioned and transomed oriel window on a central carved and shaped bracket to the left end bay, another in the right hall bay, and a 4-light casement in the right end bay. Additionally, there is a 3-light diamond mullion ground-floor window in the left end bay. The entrance features a boarded door set in a hollow-chamfered 4-centred arched architrave located at the left end of the hall. To the left, there is a timber-framed rear return wing, and in the centre, a late 19th-century timber-framed rear wing with two gables on its long right side. The interior has not been inspected but is said to contain a brattished crown post.