Maycots

Maycots is a house dating back to the late 16th century, with significant alterations and additions in the 1910s designed by Hubert Berians of Goudhurst for the owner, Mrs. Fyler. The house is built on a sandstone rubble plinth, with the ground floor constructed of brick and the first floor tile-hung, all under a peg-tile roof. Brick stacks are present.

The house faces east and originally comprised a three-room lobby entrance plan, with the two main rooms on the south side heated by a back-to-back fireplace within an axial stack. A smaller service room was originally positioned on the north side. A rear wing was added later, possibly having been reduced in length at some point. In 1910, the interior of the main block was refurbished, including the installation of an open-well staircase in the centre room. The main block was extended to the south, and a single-room rear wing, likely a dining room, was added with its own end stack. The two rear wings are connected by a two-storey lean-to, and a modern addition fills in the northwest corner of the site.

The main block is two storeys and an attic, with a hipped roof and an axial stack featuring a staggered triple shaft; a second stack is located at the north end, dating to 1910. The front elevation has a symmetrical appearance with four windows, the leftmost window belonging to the 1910 addition and matching the earlier style. A half-timbered, gabled porch, built in 1910, features a projecting gable supported by brackets and a plank and cover strip front door within a canted bay, flanked by windows. The windows are predominantly iron-framed casements with Arts and Crafts style window furniture. The south return includes two ground floor bay windows. Dormers with two-light casements are present in the roof.

Inside, exposed carpentry is visible, including scroll stops on the main beams and exposed joists. The rear wing has simpler exposed ceiling beams. The back-to-back fireplaces have been re-lined in 1910, with the original lintels blocked. An Edwardian staircase features turned balustrades, and a trimmer suggests the presence of an earlier staircase in the north room. Surviving wall framing with jowls to the wall posts is visible on the first floor, along with 18th-century two-panel doors with fielded panels. Sooted timbers around the stack on the first floor indicate a former smoke bay. The roof structure has a clasped purlin and queen strut arrangement.