Alfold House

Alfold House is a hall house dating from the early 16th century, with extensions from the 16th and 17th centuries. It features a timber frame, with the left ground floor underbuilt in brown brick and whitewashed render infill above. The right ground floor has close stud framing with whitewashed render infill, while the upper floor showcases wide panel framing. The roof on the left is plain tiled with a hip and gablet, while the right side has a Horsham slab roof over the west wing. The building is L-shaped, with a wing projecting to the right. It stands two storeys tall and has a corbelled rebuilt stack on the left and a fine 17th-century offset stack on the right, adorned with diamond panels. The gable end of the right wing features original scalloped bargeboards and a jettied first floor supported by a moulded bressumer and end brackets. There is one central leaded window on the first floor, flanked by single light windows below, and a central planked door on the ground floor. Inside, there is a braced crown post in the gable roof and substantial framing exposed. The left return front of the wing includes one window on each floor and three framed bays deep. The left range consists of three bays with arch bracing on the first floor to the left, two windows on the first floor, and two windows below, along with double doors to the left featuring a four-centre arched head.