Charles House

Charles House is a house dating from the late 16th century to early 17th century. It features rendered walling and a thatched roof with a brick stack. The building has a two-unit plan and is one and a half stories tall, with a three-window range. The entrance includes a late 19th-century planked door set in a heavy frame. Most windows are 20th-century casements, except for an original two-light wood-mullioned casement on the left. At the rear, there are three 18th-century one-light leaded casements, a flat-roofed 20th-century dormer, and a half-flipped roof with an end stack on the left.

Inside, there are planked doors, including one 18th-century planked door with fittings on the first floor. A chamfered beam is located on the left, and the roof structure consists of a butt-purlin design with three bays. The truss is obscured, but the springing for an arch-brace is visible in the rear wall beneath the first floor. Mortices in the principal rafter and soffit of the collar in the left truss suggest that the original roof was arch-braced and of the open-hall type.

An 18th-century forge is attached to the right gable wall, constructed of brick with a random band at the front and light timber framing at the rear. It has an old tiled roof and a brick stack, is a single unit, and is also one and a half stories tall. The forge features heavy frames for the 18th-century planked doors at the front and rear, a 20th-century eight-light window, and a half-hipped roof. The interior retains original plain beams and joists, as well as stairs leading to the cellar and first floor. An old forge is attached to the 18th-century stables, which are made of chalk uncoursed rubble and weatherboarded at the rear, with an old tiled roof. It has a central planked door and an 18th-century shutter to the right, topped by a hipped roof.