Cantorist House

Cantorist House is a house incorporating elements from the 17th and late 17th centuries, with a later addition. The left wing and central range were built in the late 17th century, while the right wing is earlier, dating back to the 17th century. The left and central wings are constructed of chalk rubble, with the left wing rendered and the central blocks featuring limestone dressings and brick quoins. The right wing has a 20th-century mock timber-frame with brick infill, replacing the original timber frame; the right side wall is of 18th-century chalk and brick. Stone slate covers the roof of the left wing, while the central and right wings have tiled roofs. Brick stacks are present.

The house is structured around a central hall block flanked by side wings. The side wings are two-storey, and the central block is one-and-a-half storeys high, with a three-window front. A plain pointed arch from around 1900, with a splayed architrave, frames the plank front door on the left side of the central block. The right wing features a four-light 20th-century window. The central block incorporates flat brick arches over two mullioned and transomed four-light windows from around 1900, separated by a central buttress. The rear elevation displays hipped dormers flanking a central gabled projection from around 1900, incorporating six-light mullioned and transomed windows.

The front of the left wing exhibits a projecting gable end stack, with a three-window range on the left side, featuring timber lintels over original three-light leaded casements, two of which have been restored. The right side has a timber lintel over a blocked ribbed door, and a two-window range with one original three-light leaded casement and similar 20th-century casements. The right wing has a hipped roof, while the left wing has a gabled roof. Ridge, end, and lateral stacks are also present.

Inside, the right-side wing retains a three-bay queen-strut roof with butt purlins. To the right of the entrance to the central block is a keyed arch opening to the main room, which is open to the roof and incorporates a middle truss of a 17th-century queen-post roof with clasped purlins removed. An Edwardian fireplace in a French Gothic style, flanked by carved heads from around 1900, is located in a rear square bay. Carved ornament adorns the ends of all lintels. The left wing features a pair of stairs dating to around 1900. It also contains chamfered and stopped beams and a bressumer over an open fireplace in a rear room, as well as a full set of chamfered and stopped beams on the first floor. A marble fireplace from around 1900 is situated on the rear wall, while a stone 17th-century fireplace is positioned on the front wall. A four-bay queen-strut and collar-truss with butt purlins is also present.

To the rear of the left wing is a two-storey block from around 1800, constructed of Flemish bond brick, showcasing original rainwater goods and a tiled roof.