Turnpike House

Turnpike House is a house that was formerly a shop, dating from the late 15th century or early 16th century, with alterations from the 16th century and later. It was restored in the mid-to-late 20th century. The building is timber framed, with the ground floor rendered and the first floor featuring exposed framing and rendered infilling. It has a plain tile roof and is designed in the Wealden style, consisting of two roughly equal-length hall bays and storeyed end bays.

To the left, there is a two-bay early-to-mid 16th century rear wing, and to the right, a three-bay rear wing from the 16th or 17th century. The house has two storeys, with the right and left end bays jettied at the front. The first floor is close-studded, featuring solid-spandrel arch braces supporting the flying wall-plate and a solid-spandrel bracket under the central tie-beam. The roof is steeply pitched, hipped with a gablet on the left and gabled on the right. There is a brick ridge stack on the right end of the left hall bay and a rear stack on the right.

The fenestration is irregular, with four casements: one three-light window at each end bay and the right hall bay, and one two-light window to the left of the stack. There is a blocked two-light window on the right end and a blocked doorway on the left end of the left hall bay, with a rear door located towards the centre. The rear wings are to the left and right.

Inside, the building features exposed framing and moulded end-of-hall beams, with the left beam being less detailed. There are two blocked rectangular hollow-chamfered service doorways at the left end of the hall. The end bays have broad close-set joists, and there are moulded central truss posts with a cambered tie-beam and a moulded octagonal crown post. The end-of-hall post is rebated, and there is a cambered hollow-chamfered axial tie-beam with hollow-chamfered posts in the left end bay, while the right end has similar posts with later tie-beams, neither of which has crown posts. The left wing contains plain crown posts with foot braces.

There are two late 16th century or early 17th century three-light ovolo-moulded mullion windows on the first floor at the rear of the hall. The hall floor has a moulded axial beam, and there is a brick fireplace. A 17th century newel-post is present at the stairs behind the stack.