Catts Place

House. Probably dating from the 17th century, with alterations made around 1930. The construction is framed, with the north elevation weatherboarded and the south elevation featuring 1930s imitation timber framing; it has a peg-tile roof and brick stacks.

The house is situated so that the main, south-facing elevation overlooks a garden containing a pond, believed to be remnants of a former moat. The north elevation faces a farmyard. The internal layout is a deep, single-room width with two main rooms and a central entrance passage. These rooms are heated by end stacks, and a staircase rises behind the west room. A kitchen has been added as an outshut to the east end. Some unusual features are present in the plan: the right-hand room was once divided by a central partition, and the fireplace, which appears to be secondary, faces south.

The south elevation, which is largely from the 1930s, is symmetrical with three bays and a central gabled porch of framed construction including a 1930s timber front door. The ground floor has two canted bay windows with hipped roofs, containing casements with square leaded panes. The first floor has two two-light transomed casements and two gabled attic dormers, all with similar casements and square leaded panes. The elevation is clad with 1930s studs and rails with a cement infill, replacing earlier weatherboarding, and it is said the studs and rails match the framing concealed behind. The north elevation, visible from the road, has scattered windows – three first-floor windows with 3 over 3 pane sashes, likely from the late 19th or 20th century, a 5-light ribbon window on the ground floor to the left, and other windows that are single and three-light casements. Two raking dormers are in the attic. To the right end, the roof slopes down as a catslide to the outshut containing the kitchen, which has a plank door and two windows.

Inside, both principal ground floor rooms feature exposed ceiling carpentry and open fireplaces. The east room is almost entirely lined with re-sited Breton and Flemish panelling, which was added in the 1930s and includes panels sculpted in deep relief. The windows contain some re-sited 19th-century stained glass. The first floor retains some 17th-century doors. The wall framing exhibits formed jowls to the posts.

The roof design is probably a clasped purlin, although the apex was not visible during inspection in 1989. The interior has remained virtually unaltered since the 1930s.