Salts Place

Salts Place is a farmhouse, now divided into a pair of houses, dating from the 16th century or earlier, with alterations and additions from the 17th and early 18th centuries, and a late 18th-century facade. The building is timber-framed and covered with channelled render, topped by a plain tile roof. It has two storeys, a garret, and a cellar set on a stone plinth. The eaves feature a cornice with paired Ionic modillions. The roof is hipped to the left, with the hip returning to the rear. There is a brick stack towards the front of the rear left return wing and another stack to the right of the center.

The front has a regular arrangement of nine windows, featuring 12-pane sashes in open boxes, some of which have thick glazing bars. To the right, there is a three-light ovolo-moulded mullion garret window. The building has two doors, one located beneath the fifth window and the other beneath the eighth window from the left end. Each door consists of eight fielded panels and is framed by a fluted Doric architrave with a flat hood supported by paired Ionic modillions. The right door is accessed by two steps.

The rear left return wing has four first-floor sash windows and partly overlaps a short rear wing or turret located towards the center of the left half of the main range. There is a short parallel rear range with 17th-century origins towards the left end of the right half of the main range, along with a further addition to its right. The interior has only been partially inspected, revealing a panelled ground-floor room in the left half of the main range, exposed framing and partitions, and a 17th-century stone fireplace with chamfered jambs. The initials and date DM 1727 are pricked into the plaster in a first-floor room towards the right end.