Robert Thompsons Craftsmen Ltd

This is a house, now used as a display room and office, dating back to the 16th century. It has undergone significant alterations and cladding in the 18th century and later. The timber frame construction is clad in coursed squared stone, some of which is herringbone-tooled, along with mottled pink brick in a stretcher bond pattern, and the roof is covered in stone slates.

The building is two storeys high and has four bays, with a partial rear aisle on the right and a side aisle also on the right. Originally, the range extended further to the right. A plinth runs up to the ground floor sill level. Bays one and two are stone on the ground floor, with brick above, except on the left side. Bays three and four are of herringbone-tooled stone on the ground floor, with the timber frame exposed above. Bay one has a board door within a wooden frame on the right side of a 20th-century canted bay window. Bay two has a 20th-century cross-window under a wooden lintel, and a small square window to its right, with two 12-pane side-sliding sash windows on the first floor. Bays three and four have paired 2-panel doors on the left, a 20th-century 2-light 12-pane window on the right, and two 20th-century casements with glazing bars in framed bays on the first floor. These framed bays exhibit 3 wall posts with curved braces rising at the junction with the midrail to the wall plate and vertical studs. The side aisle has stone on the ground floor supporting a midrail. The roof is hipped on the right and descends over the side aisle at a steeper pitch. Brick stacks are located at the left end and between bays two and three, and bays three and four.

The rear of the building features a sweeping roof over the rear aisle, which has stonework and glazing from the 1980s and a wide dormer. A 20th-century brick wing projecting on the right is not considered to be of special interest.

Internally, visible elements of the timber frame include jowled posts on padstones, aisle posts with sockets for missing ties, curved and ogee braces to wall plates and tie-beams (some of which have been removed), and mortices—likely for former joists—in the side aisle tie-beam. These mortices suggest that this bay originally extended further southwards and was floored. The right-hand ground-floor room has plank and muntin panelling at the right end, a chamfered spine-beam with pyramidal stops, chamfered joists with run-out stops, and a 20th-century fireplace. The left-hand ground-floor room retains two joists with pyramidal stops.