The Forresters

The Forresters is a former farmhouse that was once a public house, dating from the mid to late 17th century. It was enlarged and modernised around 1930. The original structure features tile-hung timber framing on brick footings, while the extension is made of stretcher bond red brick up to the first floor, with tile-hung timber framing above. The building has brick stacks and chimney shafts, topped with a peg-tile roof.

The house has an L-shaped plan, with the main block facing south-southeast. It consists of a three-room layout, with an axial stack between the center and left rooms that serves back-to-back fireplaces. The right room has a projecting end stack. The left end room is the front room of a crosswing that projects to the rear, added around 1930, which includes a new kitchen and staircase behind the main block. Originally, the house had a two-room plan, featuring a larger heated main living room on the right and an originally unheated service room on the left. A rear corner fireplace in the left room was likely added in the 19th century, and the partition between these two rooms has been removed. The house is two storeys high, with attics in the roof space of the 17th-century section and a secondary lean-to outshot on the right (east) end.

The exterior displays an irregular three-window front with 20th-century casements that include glazing bars, while the original part has two flat-roofed dormers. The front doorway, located to the right of center, features a late 19th or early 20th-century part-glazed plank door behind a contemporary gabled porch with wavy bargeboards. The main roof is gabled on the right and hipped over the extension.

Inside, the framed structure of the 17th-century house is well-preserved, with chamfered beams that have some scroll stops. Wall posts with formed jowls support the tie beams, and the common rafter roof includes a couple of rafters with high curving collars.

Until 1917, the house was known as the Foresters Arms and was licensed to sell beer and tobacco. It was locally referred to as 'The Peep and Slip'.