Abbotswyck

Abbotswyck is a house that dates back to the 16th century or earlier. The back wall is made of good squared limestone, while the rest of the structure is built from rubble and features a timber frame on the upper floor and gable, topped with a tiled roof. The house has a gable facing the street and is designed in an L-shape, with a former cross passage and likely originally a hall house. It is one and a half storeys tall and has an irregular arrangement of windows, including one with two small gabled dormers above two-light casements, 20th-century French doors, a plank door beneath a flat canopy, and a 19th-century two-light casement. On the left side of the return gable, there are two 20th-century two-light casements, all featuring 20th-century leading. The back wall has two low buttresses with heavy offsets. The road-facing side has squared limestone cut, a coped gable, a three-light ovolo mould casement with a stopped drip, a small two-light casement with leading, and a very small light for the stair, along with a three-light casement in the wall of the right gable extension. Inside, there are three pairs of heavy upper crucks, a newel stair at the south end, various timber-framed partitions, a fine wood bressummer fireplace at the north end, and a very deep stone bressummer fireplace at the south end. The property was formerly known as Walnut Tree Cottages.