The Old House And Attached Garden Walls

The Old House is a house dating back to the 15th century, with alterations made in the 17th century, and again in the late 1930s and 1940s. It is constructed of coursed rubble stone with an old tile roof, and brick chimneys that have been rebuilt with square shafts set diagonally, two to the rear. The original layout in the 17th century was an L-shape with three bays to the north, the outer bays gabled. The centre bay had a timber-framed and jettied first floor. Around 1940, the left gable was removed, and the house extended to the left with new symmetrical gabled and jettied bays matching the original section. Windows are largely casements with leaded lights, most replaced in the 20th century. The right bay has three-light casements. The original centre bay has a similar casement to the ground floor and two three-light casements with arched transoms to the first floor. It also features a 15th-century two-centred arched doorway on the right, with a carved stone head above. A carved head is also present on a stone bracket below the left end of the jetty. The original left bay, now in the centre, has had a similar arched doorway inserted in the 20th century, accompanied by flanking slit windows, a two-light casement above, and curved braces supporting an overhanging roof. The south front has been extensively altered and now has symmetrical projecting outer bays, with the one on the left featuring a 17th-century shaped brick gable.

The interior has been altered and embellished with reproduction or old 16th–17th century beams, panelling, doors, and four-centred stone arches. The original hall has two wide fireplaces and a row of four two-centred stone arches in the west wall. The outer arches were rebated for doors, while the inner arches have ovolo mouldings. A two-centred arch leads to a 17th-century staircase featuring turned balusters, a moulded handrail, and panelled newel posts. A ground-floor room in the southwest corner has moulded cross beams. One ground-floor doorway has a two-centred stone arch ornamented with carved spandrels. On the first floor, there are two fireplaces with similar arches, and roofs featuring curved wind-braces and queen strut trusses, one on a moulded tie beam. A rubble stone garden wall surrounds the garden, with parts having tiled coping.