Williamscot House, Late Sixteenth Century Range

Williamscot House is a late 16th-century range, originally part of a larger country house, now divided into two dwellings. Around 1568, Walter Calcott constructed the original house. It later passed through inheritance and sale to the Calcott Chanbre and Taylor families, then to the Loveday family by marriage in 1777. The house was sold and converted into three dwellings around 1978.

The building has a garden front and an L-shaped layout. It is constructed of squared, coursed ironstone, with an ashlar front and a slate roof. Stone-coped gables and renewed end stacks on original stone bases are present. The front has a 7-window range. The entrance features a panelled and glazed door with margin lights and a stone architrave surround, with French doors to the left. Two 2-storey 16th-century bay windows flank the entrance, incorporating both sashes and casements. The ground and first floors each have five sash windows set within stone surrounds. Four gabled dormers light the attic level. A balustraded parapet fronts the building, while the rear has a crenellated parapet. Rear elevations feature 3-light mullion windows and a doorway with a 4-centred head.

The interior of the right-hand portion of the house includes 16th-century moulded and chamfered lateral and spine beams with run-out stops. A staircase with barley sugar balusters dates to the 18th century. Armorial stained glass is found in a first-floor bay window and a gable window; three windows depict staple merchants dated 1568, and one displays the crest of the Calcott family also dated 1568. The interior of the left-hand portion was not inspected. In 1840, a balustraded parapet was added to the front, and a crenellated parapet to the rear. A crenellated single-storey porch was added in 1870.