Honeywood

Honeywood is a house built in 1621 for Anthony Honeywood. It features a timber frame with plaster infilling and a plain tile roof, with part of the ground floor on the side elevations refaced in brick. The house has a compactly symmetrical lobby entry design with three bays, including a central stack bay. It stands two storeys high with attics on a plinth. The close-studded frame is complemented by rendered attic gables on each outer bay of the front and side elevations. The first floor and all attic gables are jettied, supported by moulded bressumers. The gables are adorned with carved bargeboards and pendants. A central brick ridge stack has a moulded plinth and six octagonal flues.

Throughout the house, there are ovolo-moulded mullion windows, including a small two-light window at the top of each attic gable, a three-light window in the central bay on the first floor, and a rectangular mullioned and transomed oriel of ten lights to the left bay and eight lights to the right bay, with a two-light frieze window on either side of each oriel. The ground-floor oriels follow the same pattern. All jetties and first-floor oriels are supported by carved brackets, some featuring grotesques. The entrance has a central ribbed door, and small brick panels beneath the ground-floor oriels are inscribed with "AH" and "1621".

Inside, the house has moulded architraves around the doors, finely-carved chamfer-stops, a side purlin roof with collars, and exposed timbers. This building was originally the residence of the Governor of the Honeywood Charity, which was founded by Anthony Honeywood in 1621. Almshouses are located to the east, though they are not listed.