The Shrubbery

The Shrubbery is a house dating from the early 16th century, significantly remodelled in the late 16th and 17th centuries, around 1800, and again around 1900, with 20th-century alterations. The construction is of coursed limestone rubble, with a roughcast front, and a gabled stone slate roof. There are stone ashlar ridge stacks on the left end. The original layout was a three-unit through-passage plan, later expanded with cross wings in the late 17th century. The house is two storeys high, with a three-window front. A two-storey porch is positioned on the right, featuring a segmental-arched entry with a 16th-century studded door and iron fittings, set within a moulded wood architrave. The front windows are largely 20th-century three-light casements. At the rear, there are 18th-century three-light leaded casements, a dormer with a two-light leaded casement, and a 20th-century extension. A two-storey wing was added to the front left, constructed of roughcast with a gabled old tile roof and a stone lateral stack. A late 18th-century wing on the right was altered around 1900, and includes a 1950s extension to the left, both of roughcast construction.

Inside, the ground floor features stop-chamfered and chamfered beams. A fine 16th-century doorway at the rear of the through-passage has a studded door set within a hollow-chamfered round-headed architrave with sunk spandrels. A room on the right has a remodelled open fireplace and stone steps leading to a cellar, while a further room on the left has an open fireplace with a chamfered bressumer and stone jambs. A 17th-century framed winder staircase is located to the right of the passage. On the first floor, there is a chamfered stone fireplace to the right, and a central fireplace with a chamfered bressumer and stone jambs. The cross wings have butt-purlin roofs. The roof over the hall contains two early 16th-century arch-braced trusses, which were modified when 17th-century queen-post trusses were added. A drawing by J.C. Buckler dating from around 1826 depicts 17th-century mullioned windows in the cross wings.