Eatons

Eatons is a farmhouse, now a house, dating from the 17th century, with early 19th-century additions and facade, and extensions made around 1981 and 1986. The building is timber framed, with the ground floor finished in painted brick and the first floor tile-hung, except for the left gable end which is weatherboarded. It has a plain tile roof and consists of five bays: two original 17th-century timber-framed bays, a narrower bay at the left (north) end, an early 19th-century single-bay addition at the right end, and a single-bay addition from around 1981 to the right of that. The house is two storeys high with an attic, featuring a stone plinth on the left end and a brick plinth for the rest. The structure has a gabled roof with a projecting gable-end stack on the left, which has a painted brick base in English bond and a red and grey brick flue. There is a red brick stack on the front slope of the roof at the right end of the 19th-century addition. A dormer with a lean-to roof contains a three-light casement window towards the left end. The fenestration is irregular, with four casements: two three-light windows in the 17th-century section, one two-light window in the 19th-century section, and one two-light window in the 20th-century addition. The ground floor has five paned casements. At the rear, there is a lean-to on the left with a slender red and grey brick stack and a boarded rear door. A short two-storey 19th-century addition at the back of the 19th-century bay uses the same materials as the main range, featuring a gabled plain-tile roof and a boarded door in the gable end. The two-storey rear return wing from 1986, built in similar materials to the main range, has a gabled rear and includes one two-light and one three-light paned casement on the first floor of its long right side, with a boarded door towards the rear of the left side.

Inside the 17th-century section, there is a chamfered cross beam about 5 feet to the right of the stack, a chamfered axial beam in the principal left bay, and an axial beam in the right bay that is morticed for a partition. The principal posts have gunstock jowls, and the roof is partly ceiled with curved windbraces and no extant collars. There is a tension-braced partition, a blocked two-light diamond mullion window on the first floor at the rear of the principal left bay, and mortices for a similar three-light ground-floor window at the former right gable end. A brick fireplace on the left has a wooden bressumer and an early 19th-century cupboard with a dentilled cornice.