Dial House

Dial House is a house with origins dating back to the 15th century, which was recased in red brick during the 18th century and features stone slate roofs. It stands two storeys high with an attic. The front of the building displays a large projecting 15th-century ashlar chimney-breast that has a top set-off, a sundial, and an ashlar stack. The structure is primarily red brick with ashlar dressings on each side, replacing the original timber-frame. It has flush quoins.

The left bay features a dripmould and cyma-moulded recessed mullion windows, with a 2-light window above and a 3-light window below, both dating to the early 18th century. The two bays to the right are brought forward and include a string course along with flush cyma-moulded mullion windows, with a 2-light and a 3-light window above, and a door, along with a 2-light and a 3-light window below, likely from the later 18th century. There is one gabled dormer. The door is a 6-panelled design set in a beaded stone architrave with a hood supported by brackets.

The left end wall has a dripmould and similar cyma-moulded recessed mullion windows, with two 2-light windows on each floor, and a two-light flush cyma-moulded attic window. At the rear, there is a lean-to, but at the north-west angle, some 15th-century close-studded timbering is exposed. The roof is hipped at the right end and has an end stack. A string course runs around the end wall, with a 2-light window on each floor to the right of the stack. Beyond this is a rubble stone, plain-tiled two-storey rear wing with casement windows and an end stack, where the north-west corner reveals some 15th or 16th-century framing, possibly indicating a former detached kitchen.

Inside, there is likely a west end hall with a cross-passage and a solar over the east end service rooms. The hall features a panelled ceiling with moulded beams, decorated at the junctions with carved leaves. A central boss, now detached, displays the Hungerford family sickle emblem. There is also a lateral stone moulded fireplace.