The Old House

The Old House is a house dating from the probable mid-15th century, originally an open hall. It was ceiled in the early 17th century when a parlour wing was added to the east, and underwent extensive restoration around 1911. It is a timber-framed building refronted in flint and render, with a roof mainly of tiles, though the front slope of the original wing retains Horsham stone slabs. The building has a roughly L-shaped plan and is two storeys high, with attics to the parlour wing, and has five windows.

The front of the house comprises the original hall house of three bays to the left. It features three gabled dormers and three casement windows, all with early 20th-century leaded lights. To the right is a projecting parlour wing, with a gable tiled with plain and fishscale tiles, and casements with leaded lights. A porch with slender wooden columns and a four-panelled door stands at the front. The rear elevation includes a circa-1911 gabled projection forming a stair turret, a two-storey 17th or 18th-century service wing to the right, and a one-storey office at the end. There are three leaded-light casements on the rear.

Inside, the original open hall retains a crownpost roof with a curved tiebeam, an octagonal crown post with four headbraces, a collar beam, and rafters. A square crownpost in a smaller bedroom has a collar beam which incorporates reused notches from a former wallplate. The ground floor dining room has early 17th-century cross beams with 2-inch chamfers and lambstongue stops, a circa-1911 stone fireplace, and wooden panelling. The sitting room features an open fireplace with a moulded bressumer bearing crane marks and two salt recesses, although the seats and arched doorcases are from the early 20th century. A chamfered spine beam is supported on wooden corbels. A series of plank doors are likely assembled around 1911 from older floorboards. The parlour wing shows limited signs of its early 17th-century origins, except for a chamfered beam with a lambstongue stop on the first floor. The attic floor of this wing is boarded over.

Historical records indicate the house was known as Cutler's House in 1795 and was later subdivided into three cottages, then a farmhouse. It was restored in 1911 and converted into a residence.