The Old House

The Old House is a house dating from the late 16th to early 17th century, with later 17th-century additions. It is timber framed with rendered brick panels and has a slate roof. The building consists of four bays, featuring a through passage in the third bay, a former service room to the right, a main parlour in the second bay, and another service room, likely a later 17th-century addition, in the first bay on the left. The framing has two panels high to a heavy bressumer, with a third panel above in wide close studding, all resting on greensand sills. The entrance is through a later porch. The windows are timber with applied lead diamond glazing and hood boards. There are four flush gabled dormers and later 17th-century raised dormers over the two central bays at the rear. The right gable is made of stone and has a single-storey lean-to with a pantiled roof.

Inside, there is a large stone stack with a timber lintel and an oven in the right service room. The spine beams feature check and scoop stops, and the staircase has been reset in the third bay. The parlour in the second bay includes a stone fireplace, and the stack at the rear is probably an addition. The roof structure includes housed and tenoned purlins and windbraces in the centre bay.