Gallup Poll Garfield

This is a substantial house, now used as an office and dwelling, dating to the mid-16th century. A cross-wing was added to the right side in the early 17th century, and another wing to the left in the late 17th century. The building is constructed of roughcast, brick, and timber framing, with some areas of exposed brick to the ground floor on the left side. The front exhibits areas of close-studded timber framing with roughcast infill to the first floor. The roof is of old plain tiles, and there are brick stacks.

Originally a 4-bay hall house, it now presents a 2-storey, 4-window front. A 6-panel, part-glazed door is located to the right of the centre, sheltered by a modern segmental hood. To the left is a 4-panel door set within a probably mid-16th century timber-framed gabled porch, featuring a 4-centred archway with decorated spandrels and shaped bargeboards. There are various 3- and 2-light wood mullion and transom windows to the front: a 3-light window to the left, another 3-light window to the centre, and two 2-light windows to the right; the first floor similarly displays 2-light windows with a 3-light window to the left. Cross-gables are present to the left and right. A 3-light leaded casement is set into the right cross-gable. A brick end stack is located to the right, and a ridge stack to the left of the centre.

The wing to the left features a 20th-century brick ground floor, and possibly timber-framed roughcast first floor, with an old plain-tile roof and a brick end stack. It is a 2-storey, 2-window range, with a 3-light wood casement to the right and a carriageway to the left. The jettied first floor has two 20th-century 2-light wood casements. The interior includes a closed-string staircase to the left of the centre and a 19th-century straight-flight staircase to the right. The original 16th-century part of the house has arch-braced collar-truss roofs with windbraces. The early 17th-century cross-wing features a double queen-post roof. A massive open fireplace with a wood Tudor-arched surround, quatrefoil carvings, and elongated chamfered spandrels is located on the ground floor at the centre. The early 17th-century cross-wing to the right has an early 17th-century stone fireplace, now with a 19th-century marble surround. The ground floor retains massive chamfered spine beams and joists. Fragments of 17th-century wall paintings are on the first floor to the left. A series of wall paintings from a chamber on the first floor were removed in 1972 and are now held at the Woodstock Museum.