Cranmore House

Cranmore House is a house that was formerly a farmhouse, dating from the late 16th century to the early 17th century. It is a timber-framed building that has likely been constructed in two phases, later covered in painted brick, with tile hanging and a porch added around 1870, along with 20th-century windows. The ground floor is finished in painted brick, while the first floor features tile hanging, including some courses of curved tiles. The roof is tiled and has an off-centre brick chimney stack.

The house has a roughly L-shaped plan, with the east wing possibly predating the taller west wing, which is thought to have been an early 17th-century parlour wing, accompanied by a rebuilt service wing to the east. The east wing has a gable end with wooden bargeboards and a wooden window, as well as a modern lean-to on the southeast front. The northwest front includes one gabled dormer with a casement window and a ground floor 20th-century casement window. The west wing has two 20th-century casements on the first floor and two 20th-century mullioned and transomed casements on the ground floor, along with a deep plinth. There is a late 19th-century porch at the angle of the L, made of painted brick with a penticed tiled roof and a four-panelled door.

Inside, the west wing features a ground floor parlour to the south, which has a 17th-century four-centred arched brick fireplace. The spine beam in this room has a 1½ inch chamfer with roll moulding and lamb's tongue stops. The north room has a shorter spine beam without roll moulding, likely serving as a service room. A wider staircase between the two rooms has 18th-century dado panelling on the first flight. The first floor includes two early 17th-century chamfered newel posts with polyhedron finials, and the second flight of stairs features 17th-century moulding. There is a two-panelled door leading to the attic. The east wing has closely set square ceiling beams in the kitchen and three early 17th-century plank doors. The first floor reveals exposed jowled posts, collar beams, and the outline of a curved head for a former doorcase. The roof of the west wing has mostly been renewed, while the roof of the east wing has not been seen.