Hodges Barn

Hodges Barn is a former barn and dovecote, dating primarily to the late 17th and early 18th century, built on older fabric, and converted into a house in the late 1930s in a Queen Anne style. The construction is of thin-coursed stone, with a chamfered offset at approximately 1.5 metres above ground level, alternating flush quoins, a moulded cornice, and a hipped roof covered with stone slates. There are stone chimney stacks of the 20th century with an offset and moulded cornice.

The barn has a symmetrical appearance, with former cart entries on the north and south sides, now infilled with stone to create a front door (north) and a garden entrance (south). Above the cornice, an additional storey forms a square, tower-like dovecote, with a cornice that sweeps upwards at the corners and features hemispherical domes. The south front, which is formal and symmetrical, contains three windows that flank the dovecote. These windows have 12-pane sashes set within bolection-moulded architraves, with moulded sills and sill brackets. The ground-floor windows are slightly larger and have cambered heads in the centre. The central tower has a radially-glazed sash window above the cornice, and a keyed oculus below, both set within keyed, moulded architraves. A swan-neck pediment surmounts the doorcase, which contains half-glazed double doors and a radial fanlight. The left-hand return front has similar fenestration. The north front presents a plainer, asymmetrical arrangement of windows. The central feature has a similar radial sash window above the cornice, a keyed oculus below, and a pedimented doorcase with a six-panel door. Two small, single-storey wings have a moulded parapet at each end. A semi-circular stone balustrade, with a moulded coping, runs along the front of the south side with three central steps that return to meet the extended flank walls of the house, which have two steps in the return sections.

The barn was originally part of the complex associated with the Manor House built by the Hodges family and was destroyed by fire in 1556. The interior, converted in the Queen Anne style, retains consistent period features. The conversion work was undertaken by Lawrence Methuen.