Hamlet House, Including Attached Maltings And Outbuildings

The house, with attached maltings and outbuildings, dates primarily to the 17th century, with significant alterations and additions in the 18th and early 19th centuries. The house itself is constructed of rubble stone with a slate roof, stone eaves courses, coped gables, and plastered end stacks. A prominent early 19th-century ashlar stone porch features a coped gable and a four-centred arched doorway with a 20th-century glazed door. An inner door has a four-centred arch within a square frame, leading to an 18th-century panelled door. A datestone above the doorway reads "T and XXK 1688." The front of the house has three stone-mullioned windows with hoodmoulds and casements with horizontal glazing bars on the ground floor, and four similar windows without hoodmoulds on the first floor. An 18th-century rear range extends the house, creating a double-pile plan with parallel ridges.

Inside, the parlour at the left end features deep chamfered ceiling beams with added 18th-century mouldings. The hall, now combined with the parlour, has moulded intersecting beams. The kitchen, at the right end, retains its original rear door within a four-centred arch. A staircase from the 18th century has a cut string, spandril brackets, turned balusters, and a wreathed handrail.

Attached to the house on the right is a malting, dated 1816, constructed with rubble stone walls and a thatched roof. It stands three storeys high and has a flush door, casements with horizontal glazing bars, and a shuttered window on the ground floor. The first floor has a pair of loft doors, a casement with horizontal glazing bars, and two shuttered windows. The second floor contains three casements, one with lead lights, one with a centre bar, and one shuttered. The interior of the malting remains largely intact, including the original plastered floor, kiln, steeping vat and grain hoppers.

A single-storey dairy, probably dating from the early 19th century, is attached to the rear of the malting. It is constructed of rubble stone with a slate roof, and has a ledged door and a casement with glazing bars. Adjacent to the dairy is a two-storey outbuilding of rubble stone with a slate roof, featuring a ledged door and casements on each floor. Glazing on the first-floor casements is cast iron. Stone steps lead to the first floor on the end gable wall. The property represents a good group of buildings.