Oldhouse

Oldhouse is a hall house, likely dating to the second half of the 15th century, with a floor and chimney inserted in the early 17th century. A southwest wing was probably added to the rear left in the 17th century, and a 16th-century barn, likely relocated, forms the northwest wing, running parallel to the hall house. Around 1928, substantial alterations were made for John Horniman, resulting in a courtyard plan and the addition of a northeast wing. The building is timber-framed with brick and galleted stone infill, and squared stone brought to course, with plain tile roofs, mostly hipped. Brick chimneys are present and windows from around 1928 have mullions, transoms, and leaded casements. Attic windows have hipped tile roofs. The 1928 wing is weatherboarded on a brick plinth, with weatherboarded gablets to attic dormers. The building comprises a single-storey former barn, a two-storey former hall house, and the rest of the structure is single-storey with an attic.

The southeast elevation includes two bays of the former hall house with a side-outshut. The rear wall displays original timber framing with large square panels, wall-posts, and large arched braces. A colonnaded glazed arcade is present on the ground floor of the 1928 section. The northwest elevation of the former barn features a rubblestone plinth and exposed timber framing including plates, wall-posts, studs, a mid-rail, and arched braces, with a hipped roof and gablets. The north-east wing houses a pent porch and a Diocletian window to the north gable.

Inside the hall house, the left bay contains a deeply-moulded internal jetty-beam and posts, a moulded 17th-century inglenook bressumer, a spine-beam, and joists. The right bay features plainer 17th-century spine-beams and joists, along with an inglenook fireplace. The first floor includes former fireplace bressumers, cambered tie-beams supporting crown-posts arch-braced to chamfered collar purlins, with collared rafters. Sooted rafters are present within the roof. The former barn contains original framing including jowelled wall-posts, rails, arched braces to wall-plates, and tie-beams. Its crown-post roof trusses are arch-braced down to the tie-beams and up to the collar purlin, along with collared rafters. The southwest wing contains 17th-century-style timbers, including crossbeams to the ground floor, a wall-plate, and roof trusses with staggered purlins and wind-braces.

The building incorporates the remains of a high-quality 15th-century house with good-quality 17th-century alterations.