Dockenden

Dockenden is a 16th-century house, likely originally featuring a smoke bay, which has been converted into a lobby entrance house. The building is timber-framed and was refronted in the early 19th century with red brick, incorporating grey headers and partly built in English bond on the ground floor, while the first floor is tile hung. It has a steeply pitched old tiled roof with a cemented chimneystack. The house is two storeys high with three windows, which are 20th-century casements. The left side features an early 19th-century plank door, while the right side has 20th-century brickwork and an external chimneystack. There is an early 19th-century lean-to extension on the left in Flemish bond. The rear elevation includes an early 20th-century lean-to extension with an iron door knocker and letterbox. Inside, there is an open fireplace with lambs' tongue stops, a beehive-shaped bread oven, and a salt cupboard. Some original diamond-mullioned windows remain in the frame, along with a coffin hatch. The first floor displays exposed jowled posts and a section of plaster with pargetting, as well as a 16th or early 17th-century three-plank door. The building features ashlar elements.