Little Dorweeke

Little Dorweeke is a detached house, formerly a farmhouse, dating from the 15th or early 16th century. It has been significantly remodeled and extended over the years. The building features plastered cob with stone footings and a hipped thatched roof, while the right-hand extension has a gabled-end slate roof. Originally, it had a three-room, through-passage layout, which was extended to the right in the 19th century and to the left in the 20th century. The external appearance makes it difficult to determine the original plan due to complete 20th-century refenestration and changes to door positions.

The house is two storeys high and has a front with a seven-window range, all of which are late 20th-century. A large external stack at the front heats the hall, with the through-passage located to the right of this stack. The current front door was inserted into the hall. The irregular roofline rises over the hall and parlour, forming a medieval gable end behind the front stack. The right-hand end stack may date from the 19th century, while a 20th-century stack is located towards the left end, all featuring brick shafts. The rear windows are also from the 20th century.

Inside, the house retains many ancient features, including a plank and muntin screen at the higher end of the passage, which is chamfered with carpenter's mitres and has run-out stops. The lower end jetties almost four feet into the hall. There are two cross beams in the hall, chamfered with fleur-de-lis stops and a bar, with one beam forming a bressumer over another screen between the hall and parlour, which has unchamfered muntins and plastered infill. The hall features a fireplace with stone jambs and a lintel that is chamfered with run-out stops, while a similar but smaller fireplace is found in the chamber above. The roof consists of two jointed crucks with cranked collars, morticed and pegged, and a diagonal ridge piece, heavily sooted over the hall, with some sooted battening over the parlour. The lower end has been re-roofed, but the truss at the lower end side is lightly blackened.