The Old House

The Old House is a house with a 16th-century core, significantly altered in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, with garden additions dating to around 1930. The central section is timber-framed on a sandstone rubble plinth with brick and stone infilling. The ground floor is brick-clad, while the upper sections are tile-hung on the rear. The roof is tiled, with hips over the extensions and a pentice over the rear. The house is E-shaped, positioned at right angles to the street, with end extensions forming an E-shaped plan.

The front elevation features two storeys to the ends, with attic windows in the recessed central section. The central section has a half-hipped roof. Projecting end wings sit on plinths with plat bands over the ground floor, and stacks are located on the re-entrant angles. A large staircase window is on the left side, with an arched, key-stoned gauged brick head and apron break. Attic dormers are above, with hipped roofs. The central portion is framed with a half-hipped break, featuring tension bracing to the first floor and chequer-work patterning on the plinth. A shallow angle bay window is located on the first floor above a Tudor-style door with a chamfered head, and a small, single-light window is under the eaves.

The rear elevation is divided into two halves. The right half was refronted in the early 18th century, featuring a plinth, plat band over the ground floor, a deep modillion eaves cornice (partly renewed), and a four-window range with leaded cross casement windows, the ground floor windows being taller and set under gauged brick heads. An ogee arch frames the door on the right end. The left half retains 16th-century tile-hung framing, with attic dormers under hipped roofs, and a single three-light casement window with ovolo mullions under the eaves. A shallow angle bay has a leaded casement window on both the first and ground floors. A hip-roofed brick extension was added to the left end in the 20th century, featuring a single-storey bow window on the return front.