Small'S House

Small's House is a house dating to approximately 1580, built for Small, a burgess of Wallingford. It is constructed of coursed squared limestone with ashlar stone dressings, and has an old plain-tile roof with brick ridge stacks located centrally to the front and to the rear right. The house has an H-plan, comprising two two-unit lobby-entry plan ranges connected by a central staircase hall. It is of Tudor style, two storeys and an attic, with a three-window front range. The front features a plank door within a stone Tudor doorway, and three-light leaded stone mullion windows with a continuous hood mould to the left and right. A single-light leaded casement is located centrally on the first floor, with further three-light leaded stone mullion windows on either side. There is a dripmould to the eaves. Two coped cross-gables rise from the attic, each containing restored two-light leaded stone mullion windows.

The rear elevation is also two storeys and an attic, with a four-window range. There is a double plank door to a stone Tudor-arched doorway situated to the right of centre. The rear has two-light leaded stone mullion windows to the left and right of the ground floor, and four-light leaded stone mullion windows to the left and right of the first floor. A further four-light leaded stone mullion window is centrally located on the first floor, with a dripmould to the eaves. Similar coped cross-gables with two-light leaded stone mullion windows are present in the attic. The returns to the left and right have three-light stone mullion windows at ground and first floor ends of both the front and rear ranges, alongside two-light leaded stone mullion windows to the ground and first floor recessed centre, and to the gable-ends of the front and rear ranges.

Inside, a late 16th-century, open-well staircase with slat balustrade leads from the ground floor to the first. An early 20th-century, open-well staircase of matching style ascends from the first floor to the attic. The roof is a queen-strut design. Most ground and first-floor rooms contain late 16th-century stone Tudor-arched fireplaces with shaped brick backs. Furthermore, most rooms feature late 16th-century plank or panelled doors, and chamfered spine beams with shaped end stops. A probable 18th-century, round-arched tunnel passes through the central chimney stack between the front door and the staircase hall.