Flightshott

Flightshott is a house with mid to late 17th century origins, though it has been thoroughly renovated and largely rebuilt since 1976, with alterations still in progress as of 1989. The building features framed construction, with a base of Flemish bond brick and tile-hung first floor, topped by a peg-tile roof and a stack with brick shafts.

The house faces northeast and has an overall L-plan. The main block is two rooms wide, with a large heated room on the left and an unheated room on the right that contains the stair, along with a rear right outshut. There is a lower-roofed service wing at the rear left, which may be older. The internal layout has been modified during the recent renovations, with the current entrance located in the rear right outshut.

The exterior is two storeys with an attic and features a tall, symmetrical northeast front with two windows. It has regularly spaced 20th-century three-light ovolo-moulded windows, with the ground floor window on the right having a narrow timber lintel with shallow 17th-century carving. The half-hipped roof eaves are supported by three shaped brackets, with the outer brackets being elaborately carved. The left return shows a jettied attic storey, and there is a 20th-century front door on the right return. The axial stack of the rear wing has four impressively tall staggered shafts.

Inside, there are somewhat fragmentary remains of high-quality 17th-century work. The principal heated room on the ground floor features a moulded crossbeam supported by short moulded brackets and a large open fireplace. The two first-floor rooms in the main block have three-light ovolo-moulded windows set high up, which are blocked externally. A chamfered bar-stopped frame on the front wall of the left-hand first-floor room surrounds a 20th-century window. Although the first floor has been re-partitioned, the original chamber fireplace remains in situ, complete with stone jambs and a cranked chamfered lintel. Access to the roof space was not available at the time of the survey in 1989.