The Bailiffs House

The Bailiffs House is a cottage with origins dating back to the 17th century, which has been altered and rearranged, likely in the early to mid-19th century, with some modernisation around 1970. The building features a timber frame with the ground floor underbuilt in brick. The front is faced with red brick in a bond pattern that includes some burnt headers, while the end walls are made of 20th-century brick. Above the first floor, the framing is clad with peg tiles, and there is a brick stack and chimney shaft, topped by a peg-tile roof.

The house faces south and is set back from the lane. It has a two-room lobby entrance plan, with a former kitchen on the left and a parlour on the right. A central axial stack serves back-to-back fireplaces. Continuous outshots across the rear are currently used for domestic purposes, including part of the present kitchen. The current layout largely results from the early to mid-19th-century remodelling, but it retains some 17th-century fabric, particularly at the southern end of the kitchen, where there was likely an unheated room before the 19th century.

The building is two storeys high with attics in the roof space and lean-to outshots at the rear. The symmetrical front has three windows featuring 20th-century casements with glazing bars. The central entrance doorway has a 19th-century plank door beneath a flat hood supported by shaped brackets. The tall roof is half-hipped at both ends and includes two hipped roof dormers.

Inside, the former kitchen displays 17th-century carpentry, including an axial chamfered and step-stopped beam set into a crossbeam near the chimney breast. Mortises in the soffit of the crossbeam indicate it was originally part of a framed crosswall. In the former parlour, there is another likely 17th-century crossbeam, also positioned close to the chimney breast, while the axial beam and joists in this room are from the 19th century. The fireplaces have been refurbished, with many bricks turned around and reset, and both feature chamfered oak lintels. On the first floor, the frame is plastered over, as is most of the roof structure in the attics, which appears to be three bays and is likely of clasped side purlin construction.