Jacobean House

This is a Jacobean house, originally built in 1622 and enlarged in the 19th century. It was later converted into a house in 1972, having previously served as a school. The building is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings and has a thatched roof with coped gables, featuring decorative kneelers with baluster finials. There are three ashlar stacks; the central one is modern or a replacement for earlier louvred stacks at the gable ends.

The main facade is one storey and four windows wide. A central 19th-century boarded door is flanked by fluted pilasters supporting an entablature. The frieze is inscribed with information detailing the building's origins, including the founding of the school in 1587 by Thomas Burbank and Margaret his wife, and a Latin inscription. A shaped ashlar gable above contains geometrical ornament, a sundial, and a cartouche displaying a shield with what appears to be an eagle. The windows are three-light designs with ovolo-moulded stone mullions, leaded casements, cornices and lintels bearing inscriptions commemorating donations from John Michel, John Bariffe, and George Plowright. A return window is taller and stepped, with the upper part now a blind panel commemorating the 1972 conversion work. A rear wing, dating to the 19th century, is partially rendered to conceal demolition scars from a later 19th-century building. It originally had one storey, but is now divided into two stories and incorporates ovolo-moulded mullioned windows and 20th-century dormers.

The interior originally consisted of a large schoolroom, now subdivided. The roof structure features three arch-braced trusses with drop finials and cross-bracing; the lower edges of the arch braces are ovolo-moulded, while the upper edges and cross-braces are chamfered. Two tiers of purlins and 20th-century rafters are visible. The roof was strapped and likely partially renewed in the 19th century. Historical records suggest the school may have been founded as early as 1581, with the inscribed date of 1587 possibly being a mason's error.