Pitt House Restaurant

Pitt House Restaurant is originally a farmhouse dating back to the early 16th century, with alterations made in the 17th century and modernization and extensions in the 20th century. The building is constructed of rendered rubble and cob walls, with a thatched roof that is gabled to the right and hipped to the left. There are three stacks: a projecting lateral one at the front, a projecting one from the right gable end with a rendered brick shaft, and a small rendered brick stack at the left end.

The original layout was a three-room plan with a through passage, featuring a lower room to the right which was open to the roof over the hall and likely the lower room itself. A central hearth was originally present. The space was likely ceilinged in the early 17th century, coinciding with the addition of the front lateral stack to the hall and a fireplace to the lower room. Newel stone stairs, reputedly located in the hall, have since been removed. A 20th-century staircase was inserted into the rear of the passage, and an extension was added behind the hall, passage and lower room.

The front facade is asymmetrical, with a four-window arrangement featuring 20th-century 1, 2, and 4-light casement windows with glazing bars. A late 20th-century 3-light window with small panes is located on the far right ground floor. A plank and glazed door leads to the passage, situated to the right of centre, with a projecting stack to its left, and a buttress beyond the left-hand ground floor window. A flat-roofed 20th-century extension is located at the rear.

Inside, two original smoke-blackened open trusses remain over the hall: one features an exposed foot on the first floor with a side-pegged jointed cruck, threaded purlins, and a diagonal ridge; the other retains its straight morticed collar. The remaining roof timbers are a mix of 18th and 19th-century lapped and pegged collars and 20th-century timbers. A "very good" plank and muntin screen passage survives, with both circa early 16th-century features present. The left-hand screen features chamfered muntins and diagonal cut stops; the base of the right-hand screen no longer exists. Chamfered, shoulder-headed doorways are present in each screen. A simple roll-moulded head beam was likely inserted alongside the chamfered, diagonal-stopped joists. The hall fireplace has a wood lintel cut away at the centre, resting on rounded corbel stones, with a chamfered cross beam and half beam at the inner end. The house retains a relatively traditional facade and contains good quality internal features dating from different periods of its development, including stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops.