Frogpool

This is a late 15th/early 16th century house, originally a farmhouse, with a 17th century wing and alterations spanning across several centuries. The building is constructed of rendered and painted cob walls, topped by a wheat-reed thatched roof, which is hipped to the left and over the wing. Brick stacks rise from the end wall to the left, the gable end to the right, and over a projecting lateral chimney breast or stair turret at the east end, the rear. The original plan comprised a three-room through passage with a single-room wing to the front, left. There is a partial first floor within the roof space.

The south front contains three windows. The original doorway, with a thatched hood and an old ledged door, is situated between the wing and the chimney breast. A circa 17th/18th century two-light leaded casement window sits above the doorway. A similar four-light leaded casement window is to the right of the chimney breast, with a three-light window above it and another to the left. A deepened opening on the ground floor to the right now features 20th century French windows and a twelve-pane, two-light casement window above. A small window under the eaves above the right side of the hall window illuminates a small closet. The thatched roof frames the other windows. The wing itself has 20th century PVC windows. Another old ledged door is located at the rear of the through-passage.

Inside, the hall retains three jointed cruck timbers, spanning two bays, with straight collars mortised into the truss blades and butt or threaded purlins. Cruck posts are visible in the ground floor rooms, rising from floor level. Original oak muntin and plank screens survive at either end of the hall. One doorway in the screen adjoining the passage has chamfered muntins on the passage side only, with straight cut stops. The other screen retains a Tudor arched doorway, now accessed via a rear passage. The chamfered side of this screen, facing the hall, is now hidden and a portion of the screen has been removed. A chamfered oak cross beam in the hall has ogee stops. An axial oak beam in the room beyond the hall has straight chamfer stops. The room below the passage has a plastered ceiling and the wing contains a cross beam with wide chamfers. The hall fireplace has chamfered volcanic stone jambs and an oak lintel. The room below the hall has a large fireplace with a brick-lined oven to the left and a deep keeping place, which is accessible via an oak winder stair located left of the fireplace. The winder stair has solid oak treads beneath more recent 20th century treads.