Sarsens

Sarsens is a 17th-century house located on the west side of The Street in Stanton St Bernard, with its gable facing the street. It is timber framed with wattle and daub infilling and features a thatched roof. The house is single storey with an attic and has a lobby entry plan, with the entrance situated in a central half bay. To the left is a probable parlour-hall, and to the right is a narrower bay that forms an inner room, now used as a kitchen. The original kitchen was in the right bay, but a partition has been removed to extend the present living room into the second bay, which may have originally been a dairy. The framing consists of three panels high with ogee corner braces. The house has a 20th-century boarded door and timber casement windows with panes. There are four flush dormers on the front and three on the rear. The roof has a central stack and is half-hipped at both ends. Inside, the parlour features chamfered spine beams, with an incised date of 1661 on the soffit and elaborate chamfer stops. There are timber fire lintels and ovens in both back-to-back fireplaces. The western bay has been rebuilt.