Old Priests House

House. Dating from the 15th century as an open hall-house, it was converted into a lobby entrance house in the late 16th century and refronted in the early 19th century, when some of the timbers were replaced. The building is timber-framed, with the first floor clad in weatherboarding and the ground floor constructed of red brick, some laid in a header bond pattern. It has a steeply pitched tiled roof with gablets and five late 16th-century ribbed brick chimneystacks. The house is two storeys high with four windows. The windows are mainly metal casements from the 20th century, although the rear elevation has blocked diamond mullioned windows. A 20th-century doorcase is located opposite a chimneystack, containing an eight-panelled door. The interior features a roll-moulded dais beam and a spere truss. There is a ceiling inserted in the late 16th or early 17th century, and an open fireplace with a bread oven. The first floor has jowled posts, curved tension braces, and a chamfered spine beam with stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops. Also present is an octagonal crown post with four head braces to the collar beam. The roof is smoke blackened.