Trumpeters

Trumpeters is a house dating from the early 18th century, with extensions added in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of stone rubble with red brick window dressings and features a thatched roof with gabled and hipped ends, along with red brick gable-end stacks.

The building has a two-room plan, originally heated by gable-end fireplaces. These two rooms have been combined into one large room, and the partitions that likely separated them from a central cross-passage have been removed. There are 19th-century extensions at the rear, including a one-bay extension on the east end and a later outshut on the west end. A late 20th-century outshut has also been added to the front of the right end.

The exterior is one storey with an attic and features a two-window south front with two and three-light casements. The attic windows are positioned under eyebrow eaves, and there is a large blocked window on the ground floor left with a 20th-century casement inserted. The central entrance has a 20th-century glazed door, and there is a 20th-century outshut on the right. The east end displays exposed timber-framing beneath the hipped roof. The thatched roof at the rear extends down to low eaves over the left outshut, while the central extension is taller, and there is a tile roof over a small parallel range on the right. The single-storey brick outshut on the west end has a tile lean-to roof.

Inside, the partition between the two original ground floor rooms has been removed. The right part features a chamfered cross-beam with cyma stops, and the fireplace has been reduced by a later addition. The left fireplace is blocked, but both originally had ovens. The original roof structure remains intact, showcasing collar and tie-beam trusses with clasped purlins and common-rafter couples, along with thatching battens.

Notably, Trumpeters was the home of John Newland, the 'trumpeter' who led the Selborne Workhouse Riot of 1830, which occurred in response to increases in Poor Rate and Church tithes.