Albion House

Albion House is a house that was formerly a pair of cottages. It dates back to the 16th century, with additions from the late 16th or early 17th century and early 20th century. The building is timber framed and weatherboarded, topped with a plain tile roof. The main part of the house, from the late 16th or early 17th century, consists of two timber-framed bays, while a third bay to the left was rebuilt in the 19th or early 20th century. There is a single-bay rear wing towards the center, likely a remnant of an earlier 16th-century house. A 1920s cross-wing on the left is flush with the front and also weatherboarded. The house has two storeys set on a rendered brick plinth. The left wing features a jettied gable supported by brackets, and the roof of the main range is half-hipped to the right. A multiple red and grey brick stack is located at the right end of the central bay of the main range. The windows are arranged irregularly, with four sash windows; one two-storey canted bay with three two-pane first-floor sashes in the left wing, one sash window with an eight-pane upper and single-pane lower sash at each end of the main range, and a small eight-pane sash to the left of the stack. There is a door on the left return elevation and a half-glazed door in the weatherboarded rear return wing to the right. Inside, the house features exposed framing, chamfered cross and axial beams, and gunstock-jowled posts. A three-light diamond mullion window and grooves for a vertically-sliding shutter can be found on the rear wall of the main range. The central rear wing has a sans-purlin collared common-rafter roof, while the main range has a partly rebuilt clasped-purlin roof with diminishing principal rafters and windbraces.