Packs In The Wood

Packs in the Wood is a late 17th century farmhouse that has been converted into a house, with a mid-19th century rear outshut. The building features a timber frame that is rendered at the front and rear, while the sides are tile-hung. It stands on a tall, colour-washed brick plinth and has an old plain tile roof that is gabled to the right and half-hipped with a gablet to the left. There is a brick lean-to at the rear with an old tile roof, and it has a brick ridge stack and a stack at the right end. The layout is a two-unit lobby-entry plan, and the building is two storeys high with a two-window range. A bracketed flat hood covers a 20th-century plank door, and there are flat rendered arches over 20th-century two and three-light casements. A plank door leads to the rear outshut. Inside, the timber frame is exposed, and there are chamfered beams. The room to the left features a chamfered bressummer over an open fireplace. The roof, dating from the late 17th century, has clasped purlins with straight windbraces and is of slight scantling, supported by queen-post trusses flanking the central stack. The house was likely built shortly after it was leased to John Pack in 1686.