The Forstal

The Forstal is a farmhouse that may date back to the 15th or early 16th century, with alterations from the 17th century and additions from the 19th century. It has a timber-framed core, with the outer walls on the ground floor made of 19th-century red brick in Flemish bond, which wraps around the left end for a short distance. The first floor is tile hung, and part of the left gable end features red brick with occasional grey headers in Flemish bond. The roof is covered with plain tiles and is two storeys high on a plinth. Originally, the roof was hipped to the left but has since been changed to a gable. There is a 19th-century corbelled and filleted brick ridge stack towards the left end and a smaller projecting stack at the right end. The left end elevation has a large gable, and the front elevation features three large tile-hung gables, all from the 19th century, with plain tile roofs. The left gable and the first and ground floors below it project slightly. The windows are regularly spaced, with one three-light 19th-century casement beneath each gable. The entrance consists of a half-glazed and panelled door, flanked by plain chamfered pilasters and topped with a bracketed corniced hood featuring a triangular pediment, located off-centre to the left beneath the stack. There are 19th-century additions to the front on the right and to the rear on the left, some of which are linked to brewing.

Inside, the right end room on the ground floor has a dragon beam in the front right corner. The central ground-floor room features a chamfered axial beam and chamfer-stopped joists that are slightly smaller than those in the right end room, likely dating from the 17th century. There are two trusses and several rafters of a clasped purlin roof towards the left end. The interior has only been partially inspected. The building was formerly known as the Malthouse.