The Olde Thatch

The Olde Thatch is a house dating from the 16th century, with an addition built around 1982. It is timber framed, with close-studding visible on the ground floor and a rendered finish on the first floor. The roof is covered in plain tiles, originally thatched. The house has three bays: the right-hand bay was originally storeyed throughout, while the central and left bays may have been too. The house sits on a rendered plinth. The rear of the house displays exposed timber framing, including principal posts, a first-floor arch brace to the left bay, a central stud to the central bay, and a tension brace to the right bay. The roof is half-hipped and features a central brick ridge stack. The windows are irregular, with three casements: two are two-light windows, and one is a small single-light window. A ribbed door is located behind an open timber porch beneath the stack. A single-storey addition, built around 1982, extends to the right, also with close-studding and a steeply-pitched plain tile roof which is hipped to the right.

Inside, the framing is exposed. The right-hand bay has broad joists morticed for an axial partition and showing evidence of a former gable-end jetty. A cross beam is flush with the right side of the stack and morticed for a partition, while another cross beam is unmorticed to the left of the stack. Later joists are in the left-hand bay. At the rear of the right-hand bay is a first-floor three-light diamond mullion window with a pegged cill and a shutter groove. The wall-plate scarf joint is edge-halved. There is a red brick fireplace in English bond with a chamfered bressumer, a blocked bread oven to the right of the stack, and a ragstone wall to the left.