Old Kiddicott

Old Kiddicott is a house dating to approximately the late 17th century, with later alterations and an extension built in the late 20th century. It is constructed of rendered stone and cob, with an asbestos tile roof featuring gabled ends and deep eaves. Rendered axial and gable end stacks are present.

The building originally comprised two rooms and a cross-passage, potentially evolving from an earlier central unheated room layout. The left-hand room, facing south, contains a large late 20th-century gable-end fireplace with an oven and the remains of newel stairs beside the stack. The room to the right, facing north, has a blocked gable-end fireplace. A substantial late 20th-century extension adjoins the south end.

The east-facing front is almost symmetrical, displaying a three-window arrangement with late 20th-century four-, five-, and six-light timber mullion windows. A central doorway has a late 20th-century glazed door and poch. The rear (west) elevation features three circa-late 17th-century timber mullion windows on the first floor, now reduced to two lights each, alongside late 20th-century mullion windows and a single-storey extension on the ground floor. A further late 20th-century extension is located on the right side.

Inside, the left-hand room (now a hall) has closely-spaced unchamfered joists and a Heavytree stone fireplace with a chamfered timber bressumer featuring cyma stops, and a brick-lined oven. A stair turret relating to the former newel stairs is situated to the right of the fireplace. The cross-passage is now incorporated into the hall. The right-hand room (a parlour) also possesses closely-spaced unchamfered joists and a blocked gable-end fireplace, concealed by a late 20th-century brick chimneypiece. The roof structure is a four-bay design with collar trusses; the collars are halved, pegged, and joined with dovetail lap joints to the principals. The apexes are halved and pegged, and there are two tiers of purlins trenched into the backs of the principals. A diagonally-set, trenched ridgepiece is present, and common-rafters remain visible on the west side.