Eastout

House. This is a circa 1600 timber-framed building that was refronted in the 18th century and subsequently altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. Side and lean-to additions were made around 1800, and the windows were replaced in the 19th and 20th centuries, with minor later 20th-century alterations including part of the rear lean-to. The building is timber-framed in oak, with the ground floor refronted in diaper pattern brickwork, and the first floor tile-hung. It has a tiled roof that is gabled to the north and half-hipped to the south, with an off-centre and north external brick chimneystack. The house is two storeys and attics, and has four windows on the front elevation. It was likely originally a three-bay lobby-entrance house with a cellar under the north bay, and a further bay was added around 1800.

The east or front elevation has mainly sliding casement windows on the first floor, with three casements on the ground floor. A projecting gabled porch is located on the left, and a weatherboarded lean-to extension is on the right. The rear elevation has seven casements on the first floor, with an outshot partially dating to around 1800 and partially to the 20th century.

The north bay contains two-inch chamfered floor joists and a spine beam with lamb's tongue stops. The frame includes a midrail, and the end wall contains triangular slots for the original mullioned windows. There is an open fireplace with a wide bressumer with a brick back and an opening for a bread oven. The adjoining bay has a spine beam with a two-inch chamfer, shaped floor joists, a rear wall with diagonal braces, and triangular mullion sockets in the end wall. The south end has exposed corner posts. The first floor features an exposed frame with a midrail, wattle and daub panels with dung pargetting, and original floor boards. Circa 1600 bricks are visible within the chimneystack. The roof is an angled queen strut roof with purlins and curved braces; all pegged rafters are intact. Two original pargetted panels are in the end wall, and a plank door has metal hinges.

The name “Eastout” derives from a John Estout, hay warden for the bishopric of Chichester around 1310, who occupied an earlier building nearby, which is no longer extant. A date of 1810 on an adjoining former cartshed may indicate the date of the farmhouse’s refronting.